Joshua Segun-Lean, Author at The Republic

Anything Can Happen #EndSARS and the Making of History

Joshua Segun-LeanDecember 21, 2020

The most revolutionary thing we can do in the face of a state bent on denying our humanity, our existence, is what we have done since the protests began: insist on our role as active witnesses. Read more.

December 20/January 21vol4-no4

Cosmic Anger #EndSARS and the Making of a Movement

Joshua Segun-LeanOctober 26, 2020

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. Read more.

October/November 2020Special Focus: #EndSARS

Nigeria’s World of Male Terror The Logic of Sexual Violence

Joshua Segun-LeanAugust 10, 2020

Violence against women carries with it the warning that it can happen again; that it is inevitable; that the power to harm still resides where it originated, with the oppressor class—men. Read more.

August/September 2020

‘Every Time You Decide to Write, What Is at Stake for You?’ Joshua Segun-Lean’s First Draft

Joshua Segun-LeanMarch 18, 2020

Essayist and author of ‘Long Live the Children of Disobedience’ and ‘The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe’, Joshua Segun-Lean, edits as he writes, ‘feeling for a sense and a sound I might never arrive at but must keep tuning for.’

February/March 2020First DraftInterviews

The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe Reclaiming Africa's Past, Writing Its Present, Shaping Its Future

Boluwatife Akinro and Joshua Segun-LeanJanuary 13, 2020

Achebe had a keen grasp of how language demonstrated power, how power determined what was considered knowledge, and how this knowledge could become truth.

December 19/January 20Editors Picks: Independence Dayvol4-no1

Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power

Joshua Segun-LeanAugust 8, 2019

Feminism’s transformative power is one Nigeria greatly needs; and as Nigeria's feminist movement grows, its adherents show no interests in being respectable.

August/September 2019

Joshua Segun-Lean

Anything Can Happen #EndSARS and the Making of History

Cosmic Anger #EndSARS and the Making of a Movement

Nigeria’s World of Male Terror The Logic of Sexual Violence

‘Every Time You Decide to Write, What Is at Stake for You?’ Joshua Segun-Lean’s First Draft

The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe Reclaiming Africa's Past, Writing Its Present, Shaping Its Future

Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power

Joshua Segun-Lean

A New Outbreak Tanzania Has Recorded an Outbreak of the Marburg Virus

2023 Election Updates Daily Briefings from The Republic

Black Mecca A Brief History of Black Islam from Africa to the Diaspora

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