Special Focus: #EndSARS

Why We Must Remember Our Collective Memory of #EndSARS

Ernest NwekeOctober 20, 2022

Two years since the #EndSARS protests, Nigeria’s youth are determined to neither forgive nor forget those who abandoned them in their hour of need. In 2023, they will take the protest to the polls.

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‘We Just Want to Live’ Youth and the #EndSARS Protests

Zainab Onuh-YahayaFebruary 15, 2021

The #EndSARS protests saw young Nigerians united toward a common goal: putting a definite end to police brutality in Nigeria. Read more.

February/March 2021Special Focus: #EndSARS

‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!’ Our Readers Reflect on the #EndSARS Protests

The RepublicFebruary 3, 2021

If the government we have elected to safeguard our lives and property won’t put an end to police brutality, who will? Read more.

February/March 2021Special Focus: #EndSARS

Feminism is for the People The History in How Women Shaped the #EndSARS Protests

Tritima AchigbuFebruary 1, 2021

There has never been any doubt as to whether women make effective leaders, but with #EndSARS the fact has finally taken root in the minds of every Nigerian. Read more.

February/March 2021International Women's Day - EssaysSpecial Focus: #EndSARS

Lagos State Judicial Panel Updates Summary and Highlights of Lagos State Judicial Panel Sessions

The RepublicNovember 2, 2020

On 19 October 2020, Lagos State launched a judicial panel on SARS-related abuses. Read our summary of and highlights from each panel session.

October/November 2020Special Focus: #EndSARS

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

‘Enough is Enough.’ #EndSARS: Why Three Women Defied Governor Wike’s Protest Ban

Shayera DarkOctober 23, 2020

Kimora Omotosho, a university student at the #EndSARS protest in Port Harcourt, said her friend’s mother did not allow him to leave the house to join the protest until he threatened to kill himself. Read more.

October/November 2020Special Focus: #EndSARS

Fela’s Republic and the #EndSARS Protests How Nigeria’s Youth Found their Own Voice

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. Read more.

October/November 2020Special Focus: #EndSARSvol4-no4

Special Focus: #EndSARS

Why We Must Remember Our Collective Memory of #EndSARS

‘We Just Want to Live’ Youth and the #EndSARS Protests

‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!’ Our Readers Reflect on the #EndSARS Protests

Feminism is for the People The History in How Women Shaped the #EndSARS Protests

Lagos State Judicial Panel Updates Summary and Highlights of Lagos State Judicial Panel Sessions

Cosmic Anger #EndSARS and the Making of a Movement

‘Enough is Enough.’ #EndSARS: Why Three Women Defied Governor Wike’s Protest Ban

Fela’s Republic and the #EndSARS Protests How Nigeria’s Youth Found their Own Voice

What Makes a Guinness World Record Official? The Convoluted Mechanics of Guinness World Records

The Anxious Dawn of Tinubu’s Turn Bola Ahmed Tinubu becomes Nigeria’s Seventh Democratically Elected President

‘Being an Editor Is a Magical Work’ Chimeka Garricks’ First Draft

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