“This series is for the readers who still believe that justice must outlive empire.
It is for the thinkers, the critics, the exiles, and the young — especially those who have inherited silence, but choose to speak.”
By
Prof. MarkAnthony Nze
Investigative Journalist | Public Intellectual | Global Governance Analyst | Health & Social Care Expert | International Business/Immigration Law Professional
Executive Summary
This series investigates the deliberate, coordinated efforts by the Nigerian and British governments to silence Nnamdi Kanu — leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) — and suppress the wider dream of Biafran self-determination. Across 12 unique parts, it exposes the historical, geopolitical, legal, and diplomatic mechanisms deployed to erase the Biafran question from public consciousness while preserving postcolonial interests.
The journey begins by revisiting Britain’s colonial legacy, showing how Nigeria’s 1960 “independence” merely repackaged imperial influence. The same Britain that drew Nigeria’s artificial borders still defends them, not for unity or peace — but for access to oil, control over regional power dynamics, and preservation of its geopolitical relevance in West Africa.
The exposé details how Biafra, the breakaway region that once declared independence in 1967, remains a lingering threat to Britain’s post-imperial order. Nnamdi Kanu’s rise reawakened global attention to Biafra’s unfinished struggle. But instead of addressing the movement's legitimate grievances, the Nigerian state labeled IPOB a terrorist group — with Britain's tacit approval.
Through a combination of extraordinary rendition, media blackouts, judicial manipulation, and diplomatic stonewalling, both nations have conspired to suppress the movement’s visibility and legitimacy. British silence in the face of Kanu’s illegal abduction and detention — despite his citizenship — reveals a disturbing double standard in how the UK applies human rights advocacy: bold in Ukraine or Hong Kong, mute in Biafra.
The series also exposes how IPOB’s global diaspora network has transformed Biafra into a transnational movement, uncontained by geography or censorship. Yet these peaceful, legal expressions of solidarity are increasingly surveilled, undermined, or ignored by governments supposedly committed to free expression.
As the series closes, it asks: what happens when the world refuses to listen? What are the consequences of ignoring court rulings, weaponizing silence, and pretending a people’s identity can be erased?
Biafra, it argues, is not a rebellion — it is a question the world has yet to answer. And as long as that question endures, neither Britain nor Nigeria can claim moral high ground while denying justice to those they once colonized and continue to silence.
This exposé is not just about Kanu.
It is about memory.
It is about empire.
It is about the cost of silence.
