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Nigeria has jailed Biafra separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu: why it risks backfiring

By Onyedikachi Madueke, Teaching Assistant, University of Aberdeen
The terrorism conviction and life sentence handed down by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, brings an end to a ten-year legal battle. But it opens up a larger political and security question for Nigeria.

Kanu has long championed the secession of Nigeria’s south-east region, a demand the Nigerian constitution forbids. The last major attempt at…The Conversation


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