SOCIAL MEDIA AND NONVIOLENT PROTEST MOVEMENTS: A CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF THE ENDSARS MOVEMENT by Olaoluwa Babatunde OYINLOYE, Adeshina Iyanuoluwa OMOTAYO

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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song de Melvin Van Peebles (1971) : exégèse d’un film militant by Delphine Letort

“…Not only did it support the emergence of black cinema by opening up filmmaking to black crews, but it also broached taboo subjects while depicting black sexuality (miscegenation) and police brutality. Melvin Van Peebles proposed a new heroic figure through the character of Sweetback, whose hypersexuality was to become a mercantile asset in Hollywood blaxploitation films. …”
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Casting the George Floyd story in a broader context by Gerson Uaripi Tjihenuna

“… On 9 June 2020, viewers around the globe were glued to international TV networks to watch the live coverage of the funeral of George Floyd, an African-American man who was killed by the police during an arrest in Minneapolis on May 25 2020. Police brutality against African-Americans is not something new and this is what led to the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’ that has been the lodestar of the recent waves of protest. …”
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EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF POLICE HARASSMENT OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA by Ademolu Oluwaseun Adenuga, Abdullahi Abiodun Oyekanmi

“…The study does recommends for regular in- service training for the police on civil public engagement and respect for citizens inalienable rights; government assertiveness on good character, empathy and obedience to laws as recruitment criteria into Nigeria police; NANS affirmative action against police brutality of students and scaled- up public enlightenment through symposia on mutual respects for the law officers by members of the public. …”
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