#EndSARS and the Making of a Movement

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. Those who are blessed with power, And the soaring swiftness of the eagle And have flown before, Let them go. I will travel slowly, And I, too, will arrive. — Ayi Kwei Armah, Th

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