During the apartheid era in South Africa, Nigeria was one of the foremost supporter of anti-apartheid movements, including the African National Congress; the Nigerian government issued more than 300 passports to South Africans seeking to travel abroad.&lt;ref name="Love/Hate"&gt;&lt;a href="http%3A//nigeriaworld.com/articles/2008/may/261.html"&gt;The love/hate relationship between Nigeria and South Africa&lt;/a&gt; NigeriaWorld.com, May 2008&lt;/ref&gt; Sonny Okosun, a Nigerian musician, wrote the hit song "Fire in Soweto" in 1977 to commemorate the 1976 Soweto uprising against apartheid in South Africa.