Home and the diaspora
About 15% of the respondents who tweeted in support of #EndSARS, found themselves outside Nigeria. They mostly joined in when ...
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When women got involved
Women’s roles in public uprisings on the African continent have been highlighted in the media, from the Sudanese revolution to ...
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Slacktivism or activism?
How active were the people using the #EndSARS hashtag? Did they occasionally retweet a line someone else wrote, or did ...
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Hashtag Activism: Discontent in Nigeria
Online activism has played a role in protests all over Africa in the past decade. One of the most recent ...
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The journalist and the researcher
Reporters go out into the street and academics lock themselves up in an ivory tower. In the past such platitudes ...
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What stats don’t tell
Many people in Nigeria are more afraid of the police than they are of armed robbers. Especially the Special Anti-Robbery ...
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Lady and Gentleman – Fela’s coded chauvinism
Fela's voice comes blaring out of the radio of a danfo bus filled with commuters; the MP3-player of the Uber ...
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A Columnist’s Journey
He tried to make a point about African masculinity, but in doing so Kenyan columnist Oyunga Pala often got portrayed ...
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