Bruce Fein reminds genocidist Nigeria’s two key officials in the “country”’s so-called justice department that they could be prosecuted for genocide over their recent absurd declarations on the Indigenous People of Biafra freedom movement (Huffington Post, Monday 25 September 2017)

(Bruce Fein ... influential constitutional scholar)

BRUCE FEIN, “Nigerian attorney general Malami and justice Kafarati vulnerable to genocide prosecution for illegally listing IPOB as terrorist organisation”, Huffington Post, Monday 25 September 2017 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nigerian-attorney-general-malami-and-justice-kafarati_us_59c9680de4b08d66155044ff), accessed 25 September 2017)

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96th birthday of Cyprian Ekwensi

(Born 26 September 1921, Minna, Nigeria)

Pharmacist and one of Africa’s most prolific writers with particular interest in the exploration of urban life and its immense challenges – may have inaugurated the Onicha (Biafra Oshimili Delta) market literary genre with his 1947-published Ikolo the Wrestler and other Igbo Tales and When Love Whispers (see Emmanuel Obiechina, An African Popular Literature, 1973: 3), subsequently publishing over 20 novels (including People of the City [1954], The Drummer Boy [1960], Jagua Nana [1961], Burning Grass [1961], Beautiful Feathers [1963], Iska [1966], Jagua Nana’s Daughter [1993]), innumerable short stories (including several adapted for radio and television), and children’s books

(Bobby Hutcherson Sextet, “Dialogue” [personnel: Hutcherson, vibraphone; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Sam Rivers, bass clarinet; Andrew Hill, piano; Richard Davis, bass; Joe Chambers, drums; recorded:  Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, US, 3 April 1965])

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94th birthday of Sam Rivers

Born 25 September 1923, El Reno, Oklahoma, US)

SEMINAL tenor saxophonist/multiinstrumentalist and composer who has recorded with varying ensembles (big bands, octets, quintets, quartets, trios, duos, even solo!) and whose exquisite ballad “Beatrice”, named after his wife, is a classic

(Sam Rivers Quartet, “Beatrice” [personnel: Rivers, tenor saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Tony Williams, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 11 December 1964])

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106th birthday of Eric Williams

(Born 25 September 1911, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago)

ONE OF THE most outstanding African Caribbean intellectuals of all time, author of Capitalism and Slavery (1944), classic on African enslavement in the Americas by the pan-European World – from his 1938 Oxford University doctoral thesis, and first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 31 August 1962, after centuries of the British/European World conquest, enslaving and occupation

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

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What if the US (American) football players protesting at Wembley Stadium were Biafrans?

(protesting US [American] football players, Wembley Stadium, London, England, Sunday 24 September 2017)

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IF… If these US American football players in the picture (above) at Wembley Stadium in London, England, protesting against racism in their own country were, for instance, Igbo football players protesting against the recent Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led genocidist Nigeria military slaughter of Igbo youth in eastcentral Biafra regions, these players would be detained instantly on their return by the genocidist troopers and surely “disappear” subsequently… If the Igbo players had instead staged their protest in a stadium at Aba or Onicha or Oka or Asaba or Owere or Igwe Ocha or Enuugwu or indeed any other Biafran city or town, the players would almost certainly have been shot at sight by the gun-toting genocidists just as the vile operatives mowed down hundreds of Igbo youth at Afaraukwu-Ibeku/greater Umuahia and Aba/greater Aba regions of eastcentral Biafra on Thursday 14 September 2017... If…

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Season of restoration-of-independence referendums across the globe begins this week: Kurdistan ... Catalonia ... Biafra ... African peoples in a stretch of anti-African “Berlin-states” or estates dotted across Africa …

(Sonny Rollins Trio, “The freedom suite” [personnel: Rollins, tenor saxophone; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 7 March 1958) 

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123rd birthday of E Franklin Frazier

(Born 24 September 1894, Baltimore, US)

INFLUENTIAL sociologist and academic who publishes expansively on subject of race and human rights in the United States with the E Franklin Frazier Center for Social Work Research, Howard University, named after him
(https://socialwork.howard.edu/centers/frazier-center, accessed 24 September 2017)

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