7th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s There was a Country

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Father of African Literature’s incomparable memoirs on the Igbo genocide, the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970 (phases I-III), when Nigeria, headed by the African Yakubu Gowon-Obafemi Awolowo bubonic genocidist dyarchy, and its ruthless suzerain, co-genocidist state Britain, headed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson (“[I] would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...”  {Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977: 122}) murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of this nation’s population; the genocide continues unabated as these lines are written, phase-IV, beginning 13 January 1970, with tens of thousands of additional Igbo murdered since

(John Coltrane Duo, “Jupiter (variation)” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bells; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Van Geldar Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 22 February 1967)

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe’s recently published books on the Igbo genocide and Biafra are The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)

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Genocidist nigerianá, 29 May 1966-20 May 2019: What’s the scoreboard?

(Nigeria state proclivity: genocide)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

NOW THE SHADOWS lengthened. The Europeans had also been busily building up and training strong African armies. Africans trained to hate, kill and conquer Africans. Blood of Africans was to sprinkle and further darken the pages of their history … Indeed, Africa was conquered for the Europeans by the Africans [themselves], and thereafter kept under [conquest] control by African police and African soldiers. Very little European blood was ever spilled. (Chancellor Williams, The Destruction of Black Civilization, 1995: 218)

(Harold Wilson... easily decipherable DNA signature: “[I] would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...” Nigeria to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide [1968])

(Adesanya Maja Adekunle... predictably, this on the ground “boy boy” executioner of the Igbo genocide for his “massa” Harold Wilson duly declares: “I want to prevent even one I[g]bo having even one piece to eat ... We shoot at everything that moves in ... I[g]bo territory ... even at things that don’t move” [1968])

THROUGHOUT the stretch of these pulverising 53 years of slaughtering 3.1 million Igbo people (29 May 1966-12 January 1970) and tens of thousands additional Igbo (13 January 1970- present day) in this genocide, this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, the only tangible capability that the Fulani islamist/jihadist-led nigerianá murderers which include the league of pan-African constituent nations therein, particularly Yoruba, Edo, Jukun, Hausa, Kanuri, Nupe, Gwari, Urhobo, Tiv, Jarawa and their co-genocidist British state have acquired is one to commit even more murders –  nothing else … definitely, not the more challenging capacity to develop and transform nigerianá human potential and economy and, in turn, attract and merit the accolades and recognition from peers and others elsewhere in the world. Nigeria, indeed, collapsed as a state with few prospects that Sunday, 29 May 1966, when its state officials and academics and students and alimajiri embarked on the Igbo genocide. This status of Nigeria is irredeemable.

ALAS, murders and murdering and murders constitute genocidist nigerianá’s easily decipherable DNA signature as duly ascribed by that Harold Wilson’s 1968 monstrous Igbo death edict. Abhorrent legacy.

 (George Russell Sextet, “Nardis” [personnel: Russell, piano; Don Ellis, trumpet; Dave Baker, trombone; Eric Dolphy, bass clarinet; Steve Swallow, bass; Joe Hunt, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 8 May 1961]) 

 ******Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)

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Genocidist nigerianá, 29 May 1966-28 May 2018: What is the scoreboard?

(Nigeria state proclivity: genocide)

(Harold Wilson: easily decipherable DNA signature...“[I] would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...”)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

THROUGHOUT the stretch of these pulverising five decades of slaughtering 3.1 million and tens of thousands more Igbo people in this genocide, this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, the only tangible capability that the nigerianá murderers and their British suzerain-state ally have acquired is one to commit even more murders –  nothing else … definitely, not the more challenging capacity to develop and transform their human potential and economy and, in turn, attract and merit the accolades and recognition from peers and others elsewhere in the world. 

ALAS, murders and murdering and murders constitute genocidist nigerianá’s easily decipherable DNA signature as duly ascribed by Harold Wilson’s 1968 monstrous Igbo death edict. Dreadful legacy.

(George Russell Sextet, “Nardis” [personnel: Russell, piano; Don Ellis, trumpet; Dave Baker, trombone; Eric Dolphy, bass clarinet; Steve Swallow, bass; Joe Hunt, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 8 May 1961]) 

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The archives project! Igbo people of Biafra: “The stink of genocide is everywhere...”

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

*****EXCERPTS from the gripping and indelible lines on the Igbo genocide (29 May 1966-12 January 1970), the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, during which Britain and client-state Nigeria, led by Hausa-Fulani/islamist jihadists, southwestcentral Africa, murder 3.1 million Igbo people of Biafra, beginning 21 years after end of the Jewish genocide, in Leon Uri’s classic, QB VII (London: Bantam Books, 1970), pp. 392-393:

ABE studied them all, his worn-out little band of idealists. 

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” he said in a voice that literally moaned with sorrow, “I would like to make a statement by quoting in effect the words of Thomas Bannister, Q.C., when he said that no one in their wildest imaginations would have believed Hitler’s Germany before it actually happened. And he said, if the civilized world knew what Hitler intended to do then they would have stopped him. Well, here we are in 1967, and the Arabs vow daily to finish Hitler’s work. Certainly the world will not stand for another chapter of this holocaust. There is a right and a wrong. It is right for a people to want to survive. It is wrong to want to destroy them. But alas, the kingdom of heaven is concerned with righteousness alone. The kingdoms of the earth run on oil. Well now, certainly the world should be appalled by what is happening in Biafra. The stink of genocide is everywhere. Certainly, after Hitler’s Germany, the world should step in and stop genocide in Biafra. However, that becomes impractical when one considers England’s investments in Nigeria conflict with France’s interests in Biafra. After all, members of the jury, it is only [African] people killing other [African] people.  

“We should like to think,” Abe said, “that Thomas Bannister was right, when he said more people, including the German people, should have risked punishment and death by refusing orders. We should like to believe there would have been a protest and ask why didn’t the Germans protest? Well today, young people march in the streets to protest Biafra and Vietnam and the principle of murdering their fellow man through the medium of war. And we say to them … why are you protesting so much? Why don’t you go there and kill like your father killed? …” (added emphasis)

(Eric Dolphy Duo, “Alone together” [personnel: Dolphy, bass clarinet; Richard Davis, double bass; recorded: Fuel Records, New York, US, {May?June?July?} 1963])

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