Tuesday 6 February 2018

94th birthday of Pius Okigbo

(Born 6 February 1924, Ojoto, Biafra)
RENOWNED economistbrother of celebrated poet Christopher Okigbo and cousin of distinguished agronomist Bede Okigboeconomic advisor to the Biafra resistance government during the Igbo genocide (phases I-III) perpetrated by Nigeria and its suzerain state Britain, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, when both genocidist states murder 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of this nation’s population
(Sonny Rollins Quintet, “Decision” [personnel: Rollins, tenor saxophone, Donald Byrd, trumpet; Wynton Kelly, piano; Gene Ramey, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 16 December 1956])
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