Leader of Biafra nationalist group in New Jersey, Houston, Atlanta and New York

Special to USAfrica The Newspaper, Houston
NigeriaCentral.com and USAfricaonline.com

Ralph Uwazurike, leader of the controversial, non-violent group Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) will be in Houston to seek international support from his compatriots and other Houstonians on Wednesday April 18, 2001.

Uwazurike, a lawyer and a thorn in the flesh of the government of Nigeria informed Houston-based USAfricaonline.com and NigeriaCentral.com that "the liberation of Igbos of south eastern Nigeria from almost 35 years of oppressive actions and discrimination by successive federal governments in Nigeria, especially the hostility of Nigeria's current president, retired General Olusegun against our people is why we are determined to achieve our objectives."

Uwazurike will also the Martin Luther King Center for Non-violent Change in Atlanta. He regards the late Dr. King as his mentor and source of inspiration.

Almost 50,000 Igbos reside in the greater Houston metropolitan area, and they work for the city and other major oil and gas corporations in the area. The Igbos and some members of the minorities in south eastern Nigeria formed the defunct Republic of Biafra, at the time they constituted nearly one quarters of the population of the rest of Nigeria, to fight a war of survival against the rest of Nigeria due to genocidal actions directed at the predominantly Christian Igbo population. See, Biafra: History Has No Mercy.'
Nigeria's president Olusegun Obasanjo has visited Houston a couple of times. he is expected in the U.S. this summer.

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