Nnamdi Okwu Kanu born 25 September 1967 is a Nigeria born Biafran activist, who is also a British citizen. He is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
He is a Nigerian/British citizen with both Nigerian and British passports.
He was born in Isiama Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State.
Mazi Kanu began his activism for the freedom of Biafra as a Radio Biafra director and anchor of Biafra awareness under Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who said while in a meeting in Kaduna, Nigeria on June 12, 2014, that he handed over Radio Biafra to Nnamdi Kanu.
Radio Biafra however, was established by the defunct Biafran government in 1967 with the aim of championing the Biafran cause. Kanu 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 broadcast to Nigeria from London. In 2014, he founded IPOB.
On 5 September 2015, Nnamdi Kanu was a guest speaker at the World Igbo Congress which was held in Los Angeles, where he told his audience “we need guns and we need bullets”
His father, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu (JP) was the Isiama Afaraukwu of Okwulagba Afaraukwu community in Umuahia, Abia State.
His father died in Decamber 2019 at 86.
On June 29, 2021 Mazi Kanu Nnamdi was kidnapped in Kenya and illegally returned to Nigerian through joint work of the Kenyan and Nigeria government.
