October/November 2020 Archives

Lagos State Judicial Panel Updates Summary and Highlights of Lagos State Judicial Panel Sessions

The Republic·November 2, 2020

On 19 October 2020, Lagos State launched a judicial panel on SARS-related abuses. Read our summary of and highlights from each panel session. Read More...

October/November 2020 Special Focus: #EndSARS

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Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic

Liam James Kingsley·November 2, 2020

While SARS-CoV-2 and HIV are different pathogens, comparing the viruses themselves, as well as how southern Africa has responded to them, can help us better understand the region’s current climate and provide insight into whether coronavirus and its aftermath will spur a crisis on a scale comparable to the United States. Read more. Read More...

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‘I Don’t Believe in Canons.’ Ibrahim Anifowoshe’s First Draft

Ibrahim Anifowoshe·October 30, 2020

Author of ‘We Need New Names’, Ibrahim Anifowoshe, is currently interested in Islamic representation in Nigerian fiction. ‘I am fascinated by Jinn stories and Muslims know many of it. It’s like The Conjuring but with a Qur’an and prayer mat.’ Read our interview. Read More...

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Anti-Racism Beyond the West Africa’s Place in the Global Anti-Racist Discourse

Chinonye Otuonye·October 29, 2020

As we continue to live in a moment where #EndSARS protesters have made explicit the issue of police brutality in Nigeria, connections drawn between other movements outside and within the continent provide a framework to think about liberation as a global struggle. Read more. Read More...

October/November 2020

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

‘Enough is Enough.’ #EndSARS: Why Three Women Defied Governor Wike’s Protest Ban

Shayera Dark·October 23, 2020

Kimora Omotosho, a university student at the #EndSARS protest in Port Harcourt, said her friend’s mother did not allow him to leave the house to join the protest until he threatened to kill himself. Read more. Read More...

October/November 2020 Special Focus: #EndSARS

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A Monstrous Overlap COVID-19 and the New Climate Change Imperative

Oluwaseun Oguntuase·October 16, 2020

The preparedness of African countries to combat public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic is debatable, it is obvious that they currently lack the capacity to transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Read more. Read More...

October/November 2020 Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1

Fela’s Republic and the #EndSARS Protests How Nigeria’s Youth Found their Own Voice

Motunrola Bisi-Afolabi·October 14, 2020

The #EndSARS protests have resulted in the emergence of a new type of hero—one from the people, for the people and by the people—which is needed in a society where our leaders have consistently failed to meet up to democratic ideals. Read more. Read More...

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