Emmanuel Macron’s latest show tangle

(Emmanuel Macron: ... le farain)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

AFTER French President Emmanuel Macron, le farain, capitulated to the “yellow vest” protesters in the country, it is now time to clean up, to rebuild the expansive infrastructure and other property that the Paris demonstrators have torched, have smashed up, in the past few days…

Q: But where does Macron get the money to fund this huge reconstruction exercise?

A: Well, straight from the special African peoples’ finance reserves lodged in that account in the Paris bank! (see essay at link below): 

(https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2015/10/herbert-ekwe-ekwe-since-the1960s-there.html)

(Andrew Hill Quintet, “Legacy” [personnel: Hill, piano; Cecil McGee, bass; Joe Chambers, drums; Renaud Simmonds, conga, Nadi Qamar, percussion, African drums, thumb piano; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, 8 October 1965]) 

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of Readings from Reading: Essays in African Politics, Genocide, Literature (2011) and author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why Donald Trump is great for Africa (2018)

(https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Donald-Trump-great-Africa-ebook/dp/B07KFQHXKV/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1542585950&sr=8-1)

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Year 52: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s response to that December 1966 British government’s invitation to a conference on a British frigate off the Bight of Biafra

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

IN December 1966, prior to the historic 4-5 January 1967 African-initiated Aburi (Ghana) summit, Biafra’s General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu turned down a British-sponsored “conference of mediation” that would involve all surviving members of the pre-Igbo genocide Nigeria’s supreme military council on board a British frigate, off the Bight of Biafra, in which the British would chair. The Biafran leader could not accept the presumption of “neutrality” or “even-handedness” inherent in London’s invitation to host such a summit, considering Britain’s instrumental role in the Igbo genocide since the weeks and months leading to the outbreak on Sunday 29 May 1966, especially its work with the Yakubu Gowon-Yakubu Danjuma-Murtala Muhammed genocidist cells in the Nigeria military, the north region Fulani islamist/jihadist emirs and, pivotally, staff and students at the Ahmadu Bello University, the epicentre of the planning and execution of the genocide.

FURTHERMORE, Ojukwu, the historian, could not have ignored the lessons of a similar event in the 19th century, 1887. Then, King Jaja of Igwe Nga (Opobo), the Igbo nationalist monarch opposed to British territorial aggression and expansionism along the Atlantic coast of Biafra, was kidnapped by the British navy and exiled to the Caribbean island of St Vincent after accepting, in good faith, a British offer of “peace talks” on board a British naval vessel berthed off the Igwe Nga shores – Bight of Biafra.

(John Coltrane Quartet, “Slow blues” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 6 March 1963)

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of Biafra Revisited (2006) and author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why Donald Trump is great for Africa (2018)

(https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Donald-Trump-great-Africa-ebook/dp/B07KFQHXKV/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1542585950&sr=8-1)

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