End SARS Protest: What has changed since October 2020?
On the night of October 20, 2020, gunshots were fired sporadically at peaceful protesters at the Lekki Toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria. What followed was an uproar across social media that birthed several hashtags that were used to push the cause to end Police brutality in Nigeria. The hashtags were #lekkimassacre, #lekkitollgate, #endsars, #endpolicebrutality, among […]
The #EndSARS Protests and Its Playlist.
No social movement has ever progressed without powerful music to energize it. In Nigeria there has been a wave of #EndSars protest in almost all the state capitals and all the major cities. The protests started about two weeks ago to demand an end to police brutality, with mainly young people using the social media […]
#EndSARS – Who Do You Call When it’s the Police Doing The Killing? Why Nigerians are Making Bold Moves
Earlier this year, we saw the global movement that began from the US over the racial killing of George Floyd and many others. #BlackLiveMatter flooded social media and people everywhere joined the movement screaming for an end to social and racial injustice against Black people. Who would have thought that the next global hashtag would […]