Please, if you're good at demonizing generations before your own, all of this is for you:
1) Not every member of generations before your own partook in the destruction of Nigeria;
2) As it is always the case, past generations had their Adamu Garbas of today
#EndSars
3) Many parents in their 50s today looked the other way while our country burned. Their kids are teaching them what they feared to do: fight for the soul of Nigeria;
4) If you do the stereotyping, generalisation and blanket demonization of yester generations, it is wrong!
Every struggle, including #Endsars , is built on historical landmarks. Those who are on the streets today and who at 18 y/o tasted the salt of the struggle in 2012 are applying their experiences to negotiate #Endsars at 26
5) Since struggles in Nigeria take the historical timeline of 8-10 years, those who are prosecuting today's struggle will become elders in 2028-2030 when another struggle comes around- if my study of struggles in Nigeria is correct
To those who forget history, here is the draw down of struggles through generations in our country:
1) Aba Women Riot 1929;
2) Bristol Hotel Protests 1948;
3) Iva Valley Strike 1949;
4) Anglo-Nigeria Defence Pact Protests 1962;
In fact, during the 1962 protests, the National Parliament was sacked by protesters who invaded the chambers.
5) Ali Mungo Protests 1978;
6) Oil Subsidy Protests 1988;
7) Anti-SAP protests 1989;
8) June 12 protests 1993-1998;
9) OccupyNigeria 2012
I met Falana SAN as a young students activist in 1988 as he went around the country defending expelled students. He guided us and still guides many of this generation. Did he and others part take in the destruction of Nigeria? NO.
Some would ask, "Great Oracle, if generations before our own fought, why did our country not change?"

Well, they didn't organise to fix our politics as @obyezeks rightly captures it, and or to reorder political and economic power
relations. They thought piecemeal struggle
Would change Nigeria. I've bad news for you: the current struggle will make no fundamental alteration of the current order if youths don't organise for power.
If you think the current power holders are honest, ask them to swap the VIP Protection Unit of @policeng for SWAT. Ask them to have SWAT instead.
You see, the LGA chairmen who watch how the current power holders are addressing #EndSARSProtest will become the power holders future protesters will deal with
Our only option is to change the current power structure in 2023. You all say there are no leaders in the current #EndSars struggle; but it is an illusion. As a researcher of struggles I see leaders in the movements within this movement
Organisation cannot happen without the conscious peopling of structures. There's leadership that's largely acephalous- organizing and mobilizing.
Here's the good news:
Of the movements involved in the current efforts, the Feminist Coalition stands out in its ability to organise and mobilize. When proper organisation and effective leadership coalesce, real change is bound to happen.
My hope is that the experiences garnered in organzing and mobilizing will be taken to the political power realm in 2023 and beyond. The ideological outlooks of groups like the Feminist Coalition is what our politics craves. Seriously.
If you don't take these experiences forward, tomorrow's generations would have learned nothing from your generation.

Morning comes.

#EndSars

Salute from the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine!
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