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  • Travelling While Black Nanjala Nyabola
    Editor's PicksSocietyTravelling While African

    The pitfalls – and privileges – of travelling while Black

    By Nanjala Nyabola
    November 18, 2020
    Joe Shmoe may be able to backpack across Lomé with nothing more than the clothes on his back; you probably can’t. When I first ...
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    #EndSARS: Not just a name or statistic. The tragedy of Rinji Bala

    By Zainab Onuh-Yahaya
    November 5, 2020
    The widespread protests in Nigeria were motivated by real and often deeply personal experiences of police brutality. Here is one.  Before Rinji Uzziel Bala’s ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    #EndSARS fake news: Is Instagram equipped to police the internet? 

    By Ray Walsh
    October 30, 2020
    Their fact-checking algorithms are not doing a good enough job of identifying what’s fake and what isn’t.  The protests in Nigeria have been raging ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPoliticsSociety

    #EndSARS excluded queer protesters. What will it take for acceptance?

    By Adeniyi Ademoroti
    October 28, 2020
    Or when will the time be right for queer people who face police brutality like everyone else, to see their struggles echoed?  This video ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    Open Letter: African writers stand with #EndSARS protesters

    By Various co-signatories
    October 20, 2020
    Over a hundred African writers say justice must be served for victims of police brutality.  As African writers across borders, we denounce in the ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    Is the Nigerian government trying to #ENDSARS or end protests? 

    By Ayodeji Rotinwa
    October 20, 2020
    This is our regular update on national protests against police brutality, a global touchpoint, in Nigeria.  Amid protests against police brutality in Nigeria, the ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    #ENDSARS: There is no North-South divide

    By Audu Bulama Bukarti
    October 17, 2020
    SARS is as vicious and corrupt in northern Nigeria as it is in the south. Claiming otherwise is false.  Over the past two weeks, ...
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  • EndSARS protester at Federal Ministry of Justice, Abuja, Nigeria.
    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    Why #EndSARS won’t quit

    By Ayo Sogunro
    October 15, 2020
    The movement has gone from calling for the abolition of one police unit to collective protests against a system that pits the elite against ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    #ENDSARS: governor press sec admits spreading fake news 

    By Ayodeji Rotinwa
    October 15, 2020
    This is our regular update on national protests against police brutality, a global touchpoint, in Nigeria.  On the first Monday, 12 October, of the ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    #SARSMUSTEND: The first seven days

    By Ayodeji Rotinwa
    October 14, 2020
    Six things you need to know about the movement to end police brutality in Nigeria. On 3 October, two days after Nigeria’s Independence Day, ...
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