Genocide survivor

How else could a people, any peoples, who survives genocide not be the victor(s) in the aftermath of this cataclysm rather than the perpetrator(s)? This is precisely why the génocidaires are perpetually in terror of the future subsequently. An examination of any of the extant genocide-states, particularly in Africa, underlines this trauma. Memory, thankfully, prevails.

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108th birthday of Johnny Hodges

(Born 25 July 1906, Cambridge, Mass, US)

Enduring lead alto saxophonist in the incomparable Duke Ellington Orchestra for nearly 40 years, beginning 1928

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1st anniversary of second deportation of Igbo people from Lagos, Nigeria

Date of deportation: 24 July 2013

On this day, 24 July 2013, Raji Fashola, head of the Lagos region regime in Nigeria, deports 72 Igbo, including several children and older people some of whom have disabilities, from Lagos to Onicha, the Igbo Oshimili/Niger delta city, 230 miles away

http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/igbo-deportation-from-lagos_2.html

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207th birthday of Ira Aldridge

(Born 24 July 1807, New York, US)

One of the leading Shakespearean actors of the 19th century, active on the London stage and principal theatres across Europe between the mid-1820s and 1867

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212th birthday of Alexandre Dumas

(Born 24 July 1802, Villiers-Cotterêts, France)

One of the preeminent luminaries of French letters, prolific across genres – novels, drama, travel books, history, journalism – with classics which include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Twenty Years Later, The Last Cavalier, Georges

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68th birthday of Danny Glover

(Born 22 July 1946, San Francisco, US)

Award-winning film, television and theatre actor and director and human rights activist

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89th birthday of Frantz Fanon

This week, the world celebrates the 89th birthday of Frantz Fanon (born 20 July 1925, Fort-de-France, Martinique), psychiatrist and one of the preeminent revolutionary theorists of the 20th century whose landmark publications are The Wreathed of the Earth (1963), A Dying Colonialism (1965),  Black Skin, White Masks (1967), Toward the African Revolution (1969)

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