Podcast

June 03, 2021

9. Nigeria: Driving Police Reform Through Mass Protest

Hosted by Akwe Amosu
Produced by Peter Coccoma

In this first episode of Season 2, host Akwe Amosu looks back to late 2020 and Nigeria’s massive #EndSARS protests against police brutality and impunity and asks youth organizer Samson Itodo to assess their impact. What is the role of leadership and organizing in a spontaneous upswell of citizen fury and who has to deliver it? And in the Coda, veteran human rights defender Suliman Baldo recalls the way poetry powered the revolution in his country, Sudan. 

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In The Coda, activists tell us about poems and music that inspire their work. Visit the entire collection here.