Yoruba vs Igbo: how a 1977 football cup caused ethnic tensions to boil over in Nigeria

By Chuka Onwumechili, Professor of Communications, Howard University
Unwana Akpan, Lecturer in Mass Communications, University of Lagos

Football is a game of passion, and passions can become particularly inflamed when the sport represents larger political struggles. In Nigeria in 1977, an Africa-wide football contest fuelled the ethnic rivalry between the Yoruba and the Igbo people to the point that the military had to intervene. The game was to be played as a semi-final in the Africa Cup Winners’ Cup, the club football tournament that would go on to become the Caf…

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