TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................1
THE
STRUGGLE..........................................................................................................2
THE MYTH ABOUT THE
NEGRO....................................................................................7
SELF-DETERMINATION..............................................................................................10
ARAB-MUSLIM
EXPANSIONISM...................................................................................12
AFRICA
EXPLOITED..................................................................................................14
RUSSIAN
IMPERIALISM.............................................................................................16
ANGLO-SAXON
GENOCIDE........................................................................................18
NEGRO
RENAISSANCE..............................................................................................19
NIGERIAN
CORRUPTION............................................................................................20
RE-DISCOVERING
INDEPENDENCE.............................................................................22
THE
PEOPLE.............................................................................................................23
SHAKING OFF
NIGERIANISM.....................................................................................24
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
REVOLUTION.......................................................................27
THE TASK OF A
LEADER............................................................................................30
SOCIAL
JUSTICE......................................................................................................32
PROPERTY AND THE
COMMUNITY...............................................................................32
AN EGALITARIAN
SOCIETY........................................................................................33
PUTTING THE REVOLUTION INTO
PRACTICE................................................................34
THE
LEGISLATURE....................................................................................................37
POLITICS AND THE REVOLUTION...............................................................................38
THE
JUDICIARY........................................................................................................39
THE POLICE
FORCE..................................................................................................40
THE ARMED
SERVICES..............................................................................................41
THE PUBLIC
SERVICES.............................................................................................42
TRAINING AND
EDUCATION......................................................................................43
THE RIGHT TO
WORK...............................................................................................45
HEALTH AND
WELFARE.............................................................................................45
CULTURE AND HIGHER
EDUCATION...........................................................................46
SELF-RELIANCE........................................................................................................47
THE QUALITIES OF THE
INDIVIDUAL..........................................................................49
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................51
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INTRODUCTION
PROUD AND COURAGEOUS
BIAFRANS,
FELLOW COUNTRY MEN AND
WOMEN,
I salute you. Today, as I
look back over our two years as a sovereign and independent nation, I am
overwhelmed with the feeling of pride and satisfaction in our performance and
achievement as a people. Our indomitable will, our courage, our endurance of
the severest privations, our resourcefulness and inventiveness in the face of
tremendous odds and dangers, have become proverbial in a world so bereft of
heroism, and have become a source of frustration to Nigeria and her foreign
masters. For this and for the many miracles of our time, let us give thanks to
Almighty God. I congratulate all Biafrans at home and abroad. I
thank you all the part you have played and have continued to play in this
struggle, for your devotion to the high ideals and principles on which this
Republic was founded.
I thank you for your
absolute commitment to the cause for which our youth are making daily, the
supreme sacrifice, and a cause for which we all have been dispossessed,
blockaded, bombarded, starved and massacred. I salute you for your tenacity of
purpose and amazing steadfastness under siege.
