'We Just Want to Live'—Youth and the #EndSARS Protests

The #EndSARS protests have shown us that in Nigeria—a country where security operatives cock their guns at your face and boldly say ‘I go waste you and nothing go happen,’—anything goes. When Damilola did not come home from work, his family thought he was spending the night at his friend’s house, close to the restaurant in Lagos Island, where he was a waiter. But Damilola was not at his friend’s house. Damilola, 20, had left work at around 8 p.m. and, shortly after, was picked up

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