Biafra: Flavour Hails IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu In Umuigbo (Throwback)

It's Thursday and AllNews travels back in time to December 2020, when Nigerian singer, Flavour N'abania praised the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu in his song titled “Umuigbo”.

The song which is listed in the musician’s Album, “Flavour of Africa”, hailed Kanu for his activities in championing the cause of the Igbos.

In the track, featuring another artiste, ‘Biggie Igba’, Flavour praised Kanu, asking him to continue in his endeavours for the Igbos.

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Listen Below (Kindly start from ‘2:18’):

What is Biafra?

The plan for a Biafra state is not new.

In 1967 Igbo leaders declared a Biafran state, but after a brutal civil war, which led to the deaths of up to a million people, the secessionist rebellion was defeated.

Diaspora-based Kanu is the latest in a line of ethnic Igbo activists taking up the cause of pushing for an independent state, saying the Igbos have been marginalised by successive Nigerian governments.

Who is Nnamdi Kanu?

He was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and is broadcast to Nigeria from London.

Though he grew up in Nigeria's south-east and went to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Kanu moved to the UK before graduating.

Soon after setting up IPOB in 2014, he spoke to gatherings of the large Igbo diaspora, calling for Biafran independence.