From Twitter to the Streets
Assessing the 2020 #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria with a Threefold Criteriology of Dissent
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One of the most tweeted events of 2020 is the #EndSARS protest that was carried out by Nigerian young people against police brutality. Yet the protest did not only happen on digital media. It eventually became evident on the streets, taking different dimensions including religious highlights. Apart from narrative accounts of the 12-day event that was brutally suppressed on 20 October 2020, there is yet to be any analysis of the critical aspects of the protest that attracted so much global interest. This article critically examines the #EndSARS protest within the background of a threefold criteriology of dissent, namely intentionality, criticality and publicness, as proposed by Ronald Collins and David Skover. Additionally, the article pays attention to the moral and epistemological components of dissent. The central objective is to provide a philosophical understanding of dissent and to determine how this is demonstrated in a complex society like Nigeria.
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From Twitter to the Streets
Assessing the 2020 #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria with a Threefold Criteriology of Dissent
In: Secular StudiesSearch for other papers by Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke in
Current site
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Abstract
One of the most tweeted events of 2020 is the #EndSARS protest that was carried out by Nigerian young people against police brutality. Yet the protest did not only happen on digital media. It eventually became evident on the streets, taking different dimensions including religious highlights. Apart from narrative accounts of the 12-day event that was brutally suppressed on 20 October 2020, there is yet to be any analysis of the critical aspects of the protest that attracted so much global interest. This article critically examines the #EndSARS protest within the background of a threefold criteriology of dissent, namely intentionality, criticality and publicness, as proposed by Ronald Collins and David Skover. Additionally, the article pays attention to the moral and epistemological components of dissent. The central objective is to provide a philosophical understanding of dissent and to determine how this is demonstrated in a complex society like Nigeria.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 569 | 121 | 8 |
| Full Text Views | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 13 | 7 | 0 |
