RIGHT TO THE CITY
#ENDSARS & POLICE BRUTALITY
In relation to #Endsars movement in Nigeria, we identified a number of factors which led to a tension between the government and the youths of the country.
The Special anti-robbery squad (SARS) have been directly responsible for the consistent harassment and death of innocent youths all over Nigeria which has led to protest of Nigerians all over the world demanding for the complete abolishment of the police unit. Simply, the #EndSars movement is a result of the country’s underlying issues of corruption, poor governance and class inequality.
Police brutality in Nigeria is sustained by whoever pays the policing forces- therefore the police are the hand of the elite political class. To add, government-sponsored local media houses refused to report on the protests, resulting in civilians resorting to social media to bring about global awareness of the atrocities.
RIGHT TO THE CITY
#ENDSARS & POLICE BRUTALITY
In relation to #Endsars movement in Nigeria, we identified a number of factors which led to a tension between the government and the youths of the country.
The Special anti-robbery squad (SARS) have been directly responsible for the consistent harassment and death of innocent youths all over Nigeria which has led to protest of Nigerians all over the world demanding for the complete abolishment of the police unit. Simply, the #EndSars movement is a result of the country’s underlying issues of corruption, poor governance and class inequality.
Police brutality in Nigeria is sustained by whoever pays the policing forces- therefore the police are the hand of the elite political class. To add, government-sponsored local media houses refused to report on the protests, resulting in civilians resorting to social media to bring about global awareness of the atrocities.
THE NEW SACRED GROVES
The Forest Altars are a spatial intervention creating a dialogue between reforestation initiative, community engagement and sacred, cultural space in inner-city Lagos. The wider aim of the project is to address the dissociation between urban centres and the regenerative land practices needed to confront desertification in the Sahel Region, West Africa.
The proposal has a primary programme as a reforestation research site where ecological knowledge is practised and shared between ecologists, pastoralists, agriculturalists and members of the community who are concerned with the welfare of the forest as well as tapping into the creative economy of Lagos, Nigeria.
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