One year ago, peaceful protests in Nigeria against police brutality ended in a violent crackdown. Now, young Nigerians are asking whether any progress has actually been made.
New figures from the police monitoring group Netpol reporting dozens of injuries to protestors across just three demos prove why we must fight against the Government’s policing bill.
Nigeria’s protests against police brutality have gone global, and while the government has since promised to disband SARS, demonstrators are vowing to keep on the pressure.
You may be identifying and calling out racism on social media, but that doesn’t make you absolved from its evils. There is still so much more work to do.
The uniformed street gangs who inspired The Warriors were violent pillars of community identity, before being destroyed by gentrification and the drug trade.
Jabulani Ngozi of the Black Roots and author Richard King reflect on how a radical spirit of resistance in the 1980s shaped the city’s unique music culture.
