'Is what we see in Nigeria also linked up and influenced by politics happening outside Nigeria? #EndSARS is very localized but it is in conversation with other events taking place globally against police brutality and the question of policing more broadly. How much influence does #BlackLivesMatter - the methods, the style, the ways in which it does cross-class politics - have on how politics has been conducted in Nigeria and what are some of the consequences thereof? British-Nigerian independent researcher, Annie Olaloku-Teriba, and Africa Is a Country contributing editor Sa’eed Husaini, discuss the decentralized movement led by Nigerian youth that is #EndSARS.'
Published on November 17, 2020 19:59