In June, up to 200 people were killed in fighting between three different groups in the oil-rich but underdeveloped Niger delta region around the town of Warri.
Born in Warri in the oil-rich Niger Delta to a Nigerian father and German mother, as a teen Ms. Egbuna, who performs as Nneka, relocated to study anthropology at the University of Hamburg.
On July 10th, up to 250 people were killed, and many more badly burned, at Adeje near Warri in southern Nigeria, when oil leaking from a damaged pipeline caught alight, causing an explosion that engulfed in fire an area four kilometres (2.5 miles) across.