Saturday 7 October 1967 – Asaba, west Biafra: 700 Igbo boys and men executed by a genocidist Nigeria military brigade commanded by Murtala Muhammed and Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo during the course of the ongoing Igbo genocide… Genocide is a crime against humanity; there is no statute of limitations in international law for the apprehension, prosecution and punishment of persons or institutions involved in the crime of genocide

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

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(John Coltrane Quartet, “Lonnie’s lament” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, Cliff, NJ, US, 27 April 1964])

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Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led genocidist Nigeria – cataclysmic legacy of an African state run by Africans, not Europeans, that exists largely to slaughter the Igbo, an African people of Biafra

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Haunting timeframe

1. IGBO genocide – foundational genocide of post(European)conquest state, carried out by Hausa-Fulani/islamists-led Nigeria beginning 29 May 1966 to present day

(a) phases I-III, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970: 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of Igbo population slaughtered in Biafra and in regions across Nigeria

(b) phase IV, 13 January 1970 - present day: tens of thousands of Igbo slaughtered across Nigeria and in occupied Biafra including the attack by the raging genocidists just a couple of weeks ago of the family home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, in Afaraukwu-Ibeku (eastcentral Biafra), in which scores of Igbo were slaughtered and scores of others unaccounted for since. The whereabouts of Kanu himself and parents are still unknown since this attack.

2. IGBO pogrom: carried out by Hausa-Fulani/islamists in Jos northcentral Nigeria, June 1945 – massacres of hundreds of Igbo immigrant populations and the looting and/or destruction of their property worth tens of thousands of (British) pounds. No one was ever prosecuted by the regime for planning or participating in those massacres.

3. IGBO pogrom: carried out by Hausa-Fulani/islamists in Kano, north Nigeria, May 1953 – massacres of hundreds of Igbo immigrant populations and the looting and/or destruction of their property worth tens of thousands of (British) pounds. No one was ever prosecuted by the regime for planning or participating in those massacres.

*****[]Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria has murdered more Africans in Biafra, southwestcentral Africa, since 1945 than the total number of Africans murdered in Africa since 1900 by all of Europe’s conqueror-powers in Africa: Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain – including the number of Africans the Germans murdered in the genocide of the Herero, Nama and Berg Damara peoples of southwest Africa (1904-1907).

*****[]Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria now rates a not-too-distant second to Belgian King Leopold II’s notorious position as Lead Génocidaire of African Peoples Since the 19th Century in the Leopold II/Belgian state’s genocide against Africans in the central regions of the Congo River basin (1878-1908).

**********[][]African peoples (particularly those on continental Africa, Europe and the Americas) on the whole remain morbidly silent over the Igbo genocide by this African genocidist agent, Hausa-Fulani-led Nigeria... It is not inconceivable that there would have been a different presentation and outcome of this history if the primary genocidist agent here were, for instance, European...

(Mal Waldron Quartet, “Hymn from the inferno” [personnel: Waldron, piano; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Cecil McBee, bass; Dannie Richmond, drums; recorded: Vanguard Studios, New York, US, 15 August 1981])

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From Asaba to Afaraukwu-Ibeku – this blazing genocidist Nigeria trade mark

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])

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Father of African Literature on “The story”

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

“IT IS only the story ... that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story; rather, it is the story that owns us” (Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah, New York: Anchor Books, 1997, p. 114.)

(Three masters at work: Duke Ellington Trio, “Fleurette Africaine”  [personnel: Ellington, piano; Charles Mingus, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Sound Makers Studios, New York, US, 17 September 1962])

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Igbo genocide: Asaba, Saturday 7 October 1967

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

SATURDAY 7 October 2017 is the 50th anniversary of the mass execution of 700 Igbo male, boys and men, in Asaba (twin Oshimili River port of Biafra) by genocidist Nigeria military brigade commanded by the islamist troika Murtala Muhammed and Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo. This was during phase-III of the Igbo genocide which Nigeria launched on 6 July 1967. Britain, Nigeria’s suzerain, is a co-genocidist state in the the ongoing genocide, this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, politically, diplomatically, militarily – right from conceptualisation and throughout execution. Britain, under the premiership of Harold Wilson, had sought to “punish” Igbo people for spearheading the political campaign, begun 30 years earlier, to terminate its 100 years conquest and occupation of the constellation of states and peoples of this region of southwestcentral Africa.

Emma Okocha’s Blood on the Niger (TriAtlantic Books, 2006), a compulsory reference in the study of the Igbo genocide, meticulously catalogues the savagery and aftermath of the Asaba massacre. Okocha, who lost most of his family during the slaughter, survived the execution as a 4-year-old.

(Emma Okocha: onye amuma ndi Igbo)

HUNDREDS OF OTHER Igbo boys and men were also murdered by the Muhammed-Haruna-Taiwo brigade in several other towns and villages in this Anioma region of Biafra, west of the Oshimili, as  Okafor Udoka has shown (Okafor Udoka, “Lest we forget the genocide of Asaba”, Skytrend News, 6 October 2014). Ifeanyi Uriah, now 63, another survivor of the Asaba execution, recalls, in an interview with Udoka, the haunting memory of 7 October 1967:

I cannot tell this story without tears in my eyes … They [genocidist brigade] ordered everyone to come out to the [Asaba] town square … They were honest with us. They told us they were going to kill us. They took us to the mounted machine guns. Then it dawned on us that it was true. I was standing with my older brother at the edge of the crowd. He was holding my hand. He had always taken care of me. We shared the same bed. He was the first to be dragged away by the soldiers. He let go of my hand and pushed me into the crowd. He was shot in the back. I could see the blood gushing from his back. He was the first victim of the massacre. Then all hell let loose. I lost count of time. To this day, I live with the smell of the blood of my brethren that night. Even the heavens wept for the victims of this holocaust. Finally the bullets stopped (Udoka: 2014).

Nigeria and Britain slaughtered 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of this nation’s population during the three phases of the genocide – 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, and phase-IV (beginning 13 January 1970) continues as gruesomely as ever with the murder of tens of thousands of additional Igbo... 

THIS genocide inaugurated Africa’s current age of pestilence.

(John Coltrane Quartet, “Seraphic light” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, Alice Coltrane, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 15 February 1967])

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Welcome to the human Personal Assistant you summon by text. Shrowze, a new app that allows you access to a Personal Assistant simply by sending a text, has been launched in Britain.

Everyone should have a human personal assistant.

Booking holidays, sorting out activities for the kids after school, getting the plumber to fix the bathroom, organising a night out, doing shopping, just think of the amount of time you spend doing these things.

THEY ALL have to be done, but are so time consuming, and in many cases so tiring.

That’s why we built Shrowze. We are your very personal, personal assistant that you summon by text. Whatever it is you need doing, whatever it is you need getting from wherever in the world, we can sort out for you.

PS: As long as it’s legal. 

(https://www.shrowze.co.uk/), accessed 3 October 2017

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FWD: African American economic times at this African American presidency, 2008-2016...

Matt Bruenig, “New Fed data: Black wealth cratered under Obama”, People’s Policy Project, 27 September 2017

http://peoplespolicyproject.org/2017/09/27/new-fed-data-black-wealth-cratered-under-obama/ (accessed 2 October 2017)

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