Freedom, Peace and Justice Revolution Is the Choice of the People

Strength & Solidarity is taking a break until Season Five starts in October 2023. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows, continuing with episode 9,  first released,  June 3, 2021.

In this first episode of Season two, 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 rage 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.

In this episode:

● Converting protest into respect for right in Nigeria

● The Coda:  How poetry fuelled Sudan’s revolution

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