Thanks to a tip from reader/listener Zim Bida, I was able to score from Ebay an almost-mint copy of the elusive LP Igba na Egwu Ndi Biafr...

If you've been around here a while you'll know that I have a major obsession with the 1967-70 war in Nigeria, when the Eastern Re...

Once again our friend Rainer has come through with an exceedingly rare artifact from the golden age of Nigerian highlife music, in this ca...

Note: This post was updated on October 4, 2009. My post "Divided Loyalties" inspired an anonymous reader to make available an in...

The recent dénouement of the 25-year Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka was reminiscent in many ways of the end of the Biafran war in Nigeria in...

As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a bit lately about the music of Nigeria's "Eastern Minorities." By this I...