People can sniff disdain, elitism and opportunism a mile off and will turn destructively opportunistic because they have no trust in either oppressors or liberators.
The protests will need to grow into community generated and supported entities
There are profession/religion/trade/gender/age/ethnicity groups in each community with leadership people respond to. Area boys have leaders.
If the protests doesn’t engage them, the status quo will
There is an underlying class war brewing.
The middle class is too small and cloistered, the elite too entrenched and the poor too numerous and disconnected.
The precarious middle class has to build bridges to those too poor to care so as to joist those too rich to scare.
A class war serves no one’s interests.
The key is in an understanding that the status quo really benefits no one whatever the appearances so crossing the class divide by whatever means other than national progress is a fallacy.
That is the job of a badly needed “reason class”
The reason class are the hard grafters of every society. Often unseen, unsinging and sometimes unsung, for theirs is not a popularity endeavour.
The global political leadership crisis is both a dearth of the reason class and a rise of popular intolerance to “reasoners”.
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I’m pleased to announce the @BFI London Film Festival world premiere of Walking With Shadows, an adaptation of @JudeDibia’s award-winning novel. This is the first in a slate of films my team and l will be making.
I left news and current affairs because I was tragedy fatigued and could see the trauma-denying, post-shock culture emerging in Nigeria. My purpose for being a journalist was to use media as to provide information and knowledge for building better societies. Corn, but l like corn
As information and knowledge became more and more manipulated, l decided to move on to contributing to perspective and understanding especially around the complexities of human darkness using long form stories, art and culture as a means of investigating how we organise society.