#endsars shows why the police is not ‘your friend’
Yeku, J.
(12 November 2020)
#endsars shows why the police is not ‘your friend’.
Africa at LSE.
The Nigerian police’s motto, The Police is Your Friend, intends to remap perceptions of state violence at the fore of the youth-led #EndSARS protests. While highlighting the transformative potential of social media, protesters also brought into focus the ways in which the Nigerian postcolonial state abuses citizens and estranges them through acts of violence. But if not a friend, is the state an enemy or a stranger?
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2020 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 09 Dec 2020 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107624 |