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‘#EndSARS and the Makings of a Historical Movement’ explores the 2020 #EndSARS peaceful protests against police brutality in Nigeria and the implications for citizen-led movements in and beyond Nigeria.
Motunrola Bisi-AfolabiOctober 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.
Promise Frank EjioforDecember 22, 2020
#EndSARS is not just one massive protest for police reform or even for democratic accountability. It is a reckoning meant to counter the crisis in governance whilst the looting which happened in the aftermath of the protests is a catharsis.
Osaye AjariDecember 2, 2020
Internet shutdowns are employed by governments seeking to control the flow of information to a population, often without justifiable reason.
Chinonye OtuonyeOctober 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.
Olutimehin AdegbeyeNovember 27, 2020
Writer and social justice advocate, OluTimehin Adegbeye, says her biggest motivation is love. Love, she explains, ‘is exponentially more demanding and more transformative than what it has been reduced to in the popular imagination. It sits at the centre of what I consider the greatest intellectual and literary enquiries.’
Sa'eed HusainiDecember 18, 2020
Politics scholar and author of ‘How to Write about Boko Haram’, Sa’eed Husaini, thinks it’s important to know how to write a ‘shit draft’. ‘Finish the full writing task first,’ he says, ‘no matter how unpleasant the initial output may seem, and then return to tidy up the mess.’
