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Showing posts with label foundationalgenocideofpost-(Euro)conquestAfrica. Show all posts
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HAUSA-FULANI/islamist-led Nigeria
focuses particularly on the murder of Igbo youth/children in Biafra in this genocide campaign
for obvious reasons (so blatantly and fiendishly recorded for the world in its
genocide anthem), especially the male,*** poignantly evident in the attack on
Nnamdi Kanu’s family home at Afaraukwu-Ibeku (eastcentral Biafra) on 14
September 2017 (scores of boys and men slaughtered and scores still unaccounted
for) and in its slaughter of 700 boys and men in Asaba (west Biafra) on 7
October 1967.
***genocide anthem line 2 in Hausa with
English translation: Mu kashe maza su da yan maza su (Kill off their men and boys)
(Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe)
(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, 8 May 1961])
ANGO ABDULLAHI, member of the north Nigeria region’s “elders forum” and one of the “country”’s
most virulent genocidist ideologues in 50 years of the Igbo
genocide by Nigeria and co-genocidist ally Britain has, at last, come to terms with the collapse of genocidist Nigeria: see following excerpts from Paul Obi,Peter Omale & Marvellous Okeke, “Nigeria
can break up, it’s not indivisible, says Ango Abdullahi”, ThisDay, Lagos, Wednesday 31 August 2016:
“Thebatures [Europeans, in Hausa, but more pointedly the British in this context] have
brought us together … We might not be one ... in terms of language or in terms of
geographical location or in terms of customs or in terms of history or in terms
of religion and so on but as a people put in one country our first job is to
understand one another…
“Let’s
understand one another. Understanding one another will be the basis for working
together … This wish of being one is Utopian because if you look at examples of
other parts of the world there’s a lot to learn from…
“Take for
example India that got independence in 1948 … yet one or two years later
Pakistan was created … and in another one or two years [incorrect timeframe – HE-E] … Bangladesh emerged out
of Pakistan … because there was insufficient basis on which India would stay
together in the first place… “What are we
hearing [here in Nigeria]? We’re hearing about the restructuring of Nigeria.
We’re hearing about secession, we’re hearing all sorts of things and who are
the promoters of this rhetoric … If [foundational British occupation
administrator Frederick] Lugard made a mistake in 1914 … let’s correct it now.
Why not?
“If
Nigerians cannot live together and allow peace and development to reign, then
let’s go our separate ways and to our different places so that we can concentrate
and develop our children and grandchildren in peace. There’s nothing wrong with
that. “So many
countries have gone through that before. So I don’t believe in all these
emotions and sentiments that Nigeria is indissoluble … Take Great Britain, [there’s] been a model for 1,000 years of democracy [incorrect timeframe – HE-E] and
then a year or two ago Scotland that had been in the union for about 350 years
[incorrect timeframe – HE-E] opted for a referendum to get out; same problem
with Ireland...
“The Soviet
Union was a super power many years ago … today 12 or 13 countries [15 countries
in total – HE-E] were created from it … So what is so special about Nigeria? … there
is nothing like indissolubility in any country…”
(Ornette Coleman Quartet, “Turnaround” [personnel: Coleman, alto saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet; Red Mitchell, bass; Shelly Manne, drums; recorded: Contemporary’s Studio, Los Angeles, US, 23 February 1959])
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is specialist on the state and on genocide & wars in Africa in the post-1966 epoch – beginning with the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-present day, the foundational and most gruesome genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa. 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation’s population were murdered by Nigeria and its allies, principally Britain. Africa and the rest of the world largely stood by and watched as the perpetrators enacted this horror most ruthlessly. The world could have stopped this genocide; the world should have stopped this genocide. This genocide inaugurated Africa’s current age of pestilence. During the period, 12 million additional Africans have been murdered in further genocide in Rwanda (1994), Zaïre/DRCongo (variously, since the late 1990s) and Darfur – west of the Sudan – (since 2004) and in other wars in Africa. African peoples have, presently, no other choice but exit/dismantle the extant genocide-state (the bane of their existence & progress) & construct own nation-centred states that serve their interests. He is author of several books & papers on the subject and his new book is entitled The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019).
