Limiting this to Biafrans may retard the growth of this beautiful effort. Make it a proper worldwide social network just like others. Thank you.

Why not make this a worldwide social network for Biafrans and others people of other nationalities.
I want this to go world wide even more than fb.

#Power to the #People: #Israel Poised to Become A Superpower of Goodness in #Africa. ♛♕



Breaking protocol and unsettling his security detail, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waded into the crowd of Christian Kenyan Friends of Israel, hand extended to an energized crowd. He was quite literally recharging, by tapping into a sea of outstretched hands and an undercurrent of unconditional love and support and admiration for him – “our hero,” they said – and for Israel.



The confluence of story lines – personal and diplomatic – has created a unique commercial opportunity for Israel-related businesses. In Africa especially, deal-making is about the speed to trust. The continent is littered with broken promises, unfulfilled MOUs, dashed expectations and sub-par work driven by low-cost tenders and contenders. Looking someone in the eye, shaking their hand and making promises is as much a human activity as it is a business or diplomatic one. When we did it in Rwanda, building East Africa’s first commercial solar field, we kept our word, as Israelis, as Jews and as fellow citizens of a planet buckling under climate change. Kenya and Ethiopia, among others, have seen their share of charlatans and amateurs, in energy and in other fields.



But at the end of our key government meetings, the eyes were trusting, the handshakes those of allies and the plan forward clear as day.









Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Israeli delegation to “invest in Kenya” and “invest in Ethiopia.” The president of Kenya promised to do everything necessary to de-risk and facilitate those investments, and the Ethiopian prime minister was similarly enthusiastic.



The momentum created was palatable and genuine. Whether or not the deals made will actually be realized is still an open question, but since previous visits to the region over the past several years exploring solar energy opportunities, something had definitely changed.



The emotional dimension was strongest when, in introducing the prime minister to the Christian group, the moderator, on behalf of Africa, apologized for the killing of his brother, Yonatan Netanyahu, on African soil. #Netanyahu, cold and calculating in Israel, was caught by surprise. His face softened, he looked down to avoid losing control and was clearly moved. Hearts had already been softened by the blasts of the shofars that accompanied the entrance of the prime minister, four Kenyan men in tallitot and three women hailing the coming of the protector of the Holy Land.







For all the Christian and humanitarian good will, it’s all about fighting terrorism. It’s all about Yoni. All the rest is commentary.



Traffic in Nairobi can be challenging.



Yet our ride from the conference hotel to the airport had the feel of a royal entourage zipping through the main thoroughfare. Police and the military blocked all traffic for miles for our convoy, with thousands of Kenyans standing along the route watching us speed by, as Israeli and Kenyan flags flapped in the wind.



It was meaningful for me to see former Knesset members Addisu Messele and Shlomo Mula, both Ethiopian activists who graduated to representing Israeli companies in Ethiopia. And Avraham Neguise, chair of the Knesset Aliya and Klita Committee, as well as former MK Pnina Tamano-Shata, representing us proudly. Kudos to the Foreign Ministry for having the vision to name an Ethiopian Israeli, Belaynish Zevadia, our ambassador, and Serkalem Adigeh economic attaché.



One of the key reasons Africa is opening up to Israel is because many more African leaders today actually care about providing for their people and lifting them out of poverty.



With seven out of the 10 fastest growing economies on the planet, Africa’s growth means millions of people each year are being lifted out of poverty.



What Africa longs for, in addition to security, is food, water and green energy. Israel excels at all these and is quietly poised to become a superpower of goodness.



The prime minister tapped into and nurtured a growing wave of pragmatism among African leaders, who want to see results quickly. The only downside of such a successful mission is that expectations now have been raised. It behooves the Israeli government and the private sector to promptly fulfill the many promises we made to our African counterparts.



The Israel Export Institute did an exceptional job matching us with our African counterparts. Gigawatt Global Wind co-founder Ilan Goldstein and I were swamped with opportunity at every turn, from solar to wind to off-grid projects.



We must differentiate our work in Africa from others by emphasizing the development agenda. If we, like the Chinese, are there to swoop in and take deals without benefiting the country, then we would be betraying the spirit of Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion, who saw in Africa a place where Israeli and Jewish values can be expressed while also advancing our strategic interests. And we have a magic opportunity as a community to link the Ethiopian Jewish campaign in Israel to Israeli strategic and commercial interests in Ethiopia, by training, providing scholarships and work positions for Ethiopian Israelis to staff and manage the deals that will hopefully now come to fruition as a result of the prime minister’s energizing visit last week.



Next Could be #Biafra #Zionunite

#Rebuketheoppressor

According to AFP, the perpetrator was a local 30-year-old career criminal who was born in Tunisia before moving to France.



His 19 tonne lorry had zigzagged through crowds massing on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday night, killing anyone he could.



After being stopped by armed police, who fired bullets into the lorry’s windscreen, the so far unnamed man exchanged fire with officers using a 7.65pistol, before being shot dead.



The attack, which comes eight months and a day after Isis gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris, appeared so far to be the work of a lone assailant.

"People went down like ninepins," Jacques, who runs Le Queenie restaurant on the seafront, told France Info.



"I saw people go down," bystander Franck Sidoli, who was visibly shocked, told Reuters at the scene. "Then the truck stopped, we were just five metres away. A woman was there, she lost her son. Her son was on the ground, bleeding."



The fact that the killer was known to the authorities will be of grave concern to those trying to prevent terrorist attacks in France.



Source: AFP/Telegraph UK

#Yahgozie

I AM PRO-BIAFRA........Wole Soyinka. Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has, again, explained his support for Biafran agitators.
Soyinka said the Igbo people have been so wronged that they have no choice than to consider opting out of Nigeria.
Prof. Soyinka spoke on Al Jazeera, yesterday where he shed light on his support for Biafra agitators.
“I am very much pro- Biafra because I recognise that the Igbo have been wronged desperately.
“They have been brutalised in a way that justifies their feeling that they were not part of the nation.
“Let me also say this, Biafrans are not entirely innocent in this affair. They were not, but the unleashing of such venom, such devastation on them as a people, was sufficient to justify their decision not to be part of the nation.
“I was pro-Biafran in the sense that I felt that they needed justice.”
Soyinka denied he was a troublemaker, especially in the Biafran crisis, but added, “I grew up in certain circumstances being very conscious politically, in this very Abeokuta; my mother was involved in the politics, my aunt, Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was a leader…
“I grew up among political arguments on issues that concern humanity and I find that basically gravitated towards recognising the basic worth of human beings.
“Something I disagree when they call me a patriot because I don’t agitate on some certain entity called a nation; I agitate on humanity.”
He criticised the removal of History and teaching of the Biafran crisis in schools.
“Officials do not want to confront their own history, especially the history in the making of which they feel uncomfortable but, if you do not confront your past, you are going to mess up your future.”
On Boko Haram and the breakup of Nigeria, he said ironically, Boko Haram might be part of the reasons Nigeria may stay together.
Soyinka said a few years ago, he would have agreed that Nigeria would break, but, now that a section of the country is in trouble, there is some kind of pulling together. He added that the conscience of many Nigerian has been awakened such that they cannot abandon that section of the country.
He urged Nigerians to recognise the plurality of Nigeria, how it came together and begin to devise and adopt a method of governance which cannot only be of massive decentralisation. “That way, we can stay together. If we continue to have a centralist government, then, Nigeria is on the brink.”

Source:

http://sunnewsonline.com/im-pro-biafra-soyinka/