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 Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

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(The New York Contemporary Five plays Bill Dixon’s composition, “Trio” [personnel: Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet;  Tchicai, alto saxophone; Don Moore, bass; JC Moses, drums; recorded: live, Jazzhus Montmarte, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 November 1963; note particularly Tchicai’s ethereal solo – first – here which captures the historic saliency of the restoration-of-independence movement of the Biafran and Catalan peoples])

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217th birthday of Nat Turner

(Born 2 October 1800, Southampton county, Virginia, US)

INFLUENTIAL religious leader and organiser of the historic 21 August 1831 enslaved Africans’ insurrection in Virginia, United States, an uprising church historian James H Harris has described as the “turning point” in the African American freedom movement (James Harris, Preaching Liberation [Minneapolis: Augsbury Fortress Publishers, 1995], p. 46)

(The New York Contemporary Five plays John Tchicai’s composition, “Trio” – [personnel: Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet;  Tchicai, alto saxophone; Don Moore, bass; JC Moses, drums [recorded: live, Jazzhus Montmarte, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 November 1963]

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Catalonia moves!

CATALANS support restoration-of-independence overwhelmingly in Sunday 1 October 2017 referendum result: 90.90% vote “yes” for freedom... Surely, the Biafrans, in their own referendum soon, will offset this handsome tally from Catalonia.
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Vanguard on the move

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

BEGINNING in the early 1930s to October 1960, the Igbo nation played the vanguard role in the campaign for restoration-of-independence to terminate 100 years of the British conquest and occupation of the multiplicity of states and peoples of southwestcentral Africa region which the conqueror contemptuously tagged “Nigeria”. Britain responded with the genocide of the Igbo and employed its Hausa-Fulani/islamist clients on the ground, inveterately anti-African who hitherto opposed the restoration-of-independence drive, to enforce this mass murder. The genocidists slaughtered 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of the Igbo population during the course of 44 months, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970. Tens of thousands additional Igbo have been murdered subsequently. 

THE Igbo have not only survived the genocide but are now in the vanguard to construct Biafra, an African peoples-centred state, that at once effectuates African control of its destiny not seen for centuries and the collapse of the Anglo/European World anti-African “Berlin-states” dotted across Africa such as the “Nigerias”.

(John Coltrane, Ascension [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Dewey Johnson, trumpet; John Tchicai, alto saxophone; Marion Brown, alto saxophone; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone; Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano;  Art Davis, bass; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, NJ, US, 28 June 1965]) 

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57th birthday of Esiaba Irobi

(Born 1 October 1960, Aba, Biafra)

Distinguished dramatist (“Nwokedi”, “Hangmen also Die”, “Cemetery Road”), poet, essayist, Biafra freedom-centred scholar

(John Coltrane Quartet, “Living space” [personnel: Coltrane, soprano saxophone, McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, NJ, US, 16 June 1965]) 

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Land of the Rising Sun

(Biafra: … resilient, transformative, inextinguishable)

(John Coltrane Quintet – featuring Eric Dolphy, “Spiritual” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, soprano saxaphone; Dolphy, bass clarinet; McCoy Tyner, piano; Reggie Workman, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live, at The Village Vanguard, New York, US, 3 November 1961])

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Biafra’s invaluable gift to the world

(Biafra: ... beacon of tenacity of spirit of human-overcoming of the most desperate, unimaginable bestiality)

(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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