Joshua Segun-Lean, Author at The Republic

To Bear Time: On Sudan’s Long Endurance

Joshua Segun-Lean·August 4, 2024

The war in Sudan has displaced millions and cast a shadow over the country’s future. Against these odds, the spirit of popular struggle endures in ‘minor’, indeterminate scales of social and political action. Read More...

August/September 2024 Sudan

To Be in the World: Notes Against Forgetting A Case for New African Internationalist Politics

Joshua Segun-Lean·November 26, 2023

Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine has unveiled and deepened ideological divides in debates about state power and the use of violence; ethnonationalism and the ‘right to exist’; mass mobilization and solidarities across difference. At the heart of these debates is a growing awareness of the limits of Western liberal democracy and a call for new vocabularies and frameworks for political action that echo and extend Black internationalist and Third-Worldism movements of the twentieth century. Read More...

Africa Best of 2023: Essays October/November 2023

Anything Can Happen #EndSARS and the Making of History

Joshua Segun-Lean·December 21, 2020

The most revolutionary thing we can do in the face of a state bent on denying our humanity, our existence, is what we have done since the protests began: insist on our role as active witnesses. Read more. Read More...

December 20/January 21 vol4-no4

Cosmic Anger #EndSARS and the Making of a Movement

Joshua Segun-Lean·October 26, 2020

Looking beyond SARS will necessitate an understanding of intersecting and inherited struggles. We are inheritors of Haiti’s revolution, whether we choose to be or not, and we are dependent on the Movement for Black Lives in America as we are on the movement against Gender-Based Violence in Namibia. Read more. Read More...

October/November 2020 Special Focus: #EndSARS

Nigeria’s World of Male Terror The Logic of Sexual Violence

Joshua Segun-Lean·August 10, 2020

Violence against women carries with it the warning that it can happen again; that it is inevitable; that the power to harm still resides where it originated, with the oppressor class—men. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2020

‘Every Time You Decide to Write, What Is at Stake for You?’ Joshua Segun-Lean’s First Draft

Joshua Segun-Lean·March 18, 2020

Essayist and author of ‘Long Live the Children of Disobedience’ and ‘The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe’, Joshua Segun-Lean, edits as he writes, ‘feeling for a sense and a sound I might never arrive at but must keep tuning for.’ Read More...

February/March 2020 First Draft Interviews

The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe Reclaiming Africa's Past, Writing Its Present, Shaping Its Future

Boluwatife Akinro and Joshua Segun-Lean·January 13, 2020

Achebe had a keen grasp of how language demonstrated power, how power determined what was considered knowledge, and how this knowledge could become truth. Read More...

December 19/January 20 Editors Picks: Independence Day vol4-no1

Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power

Joshua Segun-Lean·August 8, 2019

Feminism’s transformative power is one Nigeria greatly needs; and as Nigeria's feminist movement grows, its adherents show no interests in being respectable. Read More...

August/September 2019

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