Baba Aye's

Scores of thousands of young people took over dozens of cities and towns in Nigeria for two weeks. This rebellion, with the slogan and hashtag #EndSARS was sparked by the reported killing of a young man by the special anti-robbery squad (SARS), in Ughelli, a town in the Niger delta region on 3 rd October. With each passing day, the supposedly “leaderless” movement waxed stronger. And while #EndSARS remained the primary and binding demand, calls for more radical measures to #EndInjustice increasingly gained support within the ranks of protesters. The regime’s efforts to break the movement with guile and attacks by its hired hands failed. In desperation, it called in the troops on 20 th October to smash the major demonstrations in Lagos, the commercial capital. According to Amnesty International “at least 12 peaceful protesters” were killed in the two major protests that day alone. The figures are probably much higher. According to protesters, soldiers carted away dozens of bodies....

Introduction Brasil is a country steeped in contradictions historically and contemporaneously. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in Latin America, but with the largest population in the region. Undoubtedly the economic giant of Latin America due to the size of its market and level of industrialization, yet it has the fifth highest level of inequality in the region. Being one of the ten largest economies in the world and along with Russia, India and China considered the leading newly industrializing nations in the world, and a middle income country; it is still more often than not categorized as a developing country due to a high prevalence of poverty (Edwards, 2001: 79). Having been the site of the first of military putsches that would lead to an era of Bureaucratic Authoritarian States in Latin America , Brasil today has a model constitution and is the only country in the region with a trade union’s Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) at the helm of the state. The worke...