The founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, put the cause of secession on the agenda when it seemed to belong to a distant past.
Fifty years after the declaration of independence of Biafra, the cause of the secessionists seemed to be well and truly buried. All Nigeria's spotlight was on the Islamist Boko Haram sect terrorizing the north of the country. Biafra was a distant memory until Nnamdi Kanu, an Igbo (majority ethnic group in the south-east) of Great Britain, appeared. A country where he had completed his studies started in Nigeria.

Kanu, 50, worked in London in the real estate industry and, apart from his family, no one was worried about his fate or his vision of the world. He came out of anonymity by founding in 2009 Radio Biafra. During the day, he worked to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world. At night, he defended the independence cause on the airwaves. Of course, he knew he could not have done such a fight in his homeland where he was immediately arrested. For half a century, Biafra has remained a taboo subject. His supporters avoid talking about it in public so as not to get in trouble with Nigeria's political police.

Invited to an Igbo Congress in California in 2013, Nnamdi Kanu said, "What we are missing are weapons and bullets. If we fail to create Biafra, everyone will have to die". Two years later, during a stay in Abuja, the federal capital, he was arrested by the DSS (Department State Service), the Nigerian security services. Kanu is thrown in jail. He will spend eighteen months without being judged. On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Biafra's declaration of independence, he was released at the end of April on bail by the authorities. The secessionist then decides to return to live in the house of his parents who is in Umahia, the last capital of Biafra. According to Kanu, the family home is attacked at the end of September by the Nigerian army. Several Kanu supporters were reported to have died during the assault, according to secessionists. Since then, Kanu has disappeared. On October 25, Kanu's trial and his supporters opened in Igbo country, but the secessionist leader did not resurface. The federal regime accuses him of running away, while his supporters ask the army to prove he is still alive.

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