Framing Injustice: Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS) in Nigeria and the #EndSARS Protest Response from a Social Movement Theory Perspective

This article employs Social Movement Theory (SMT) to examine collective action mobilisation against malfeasance by Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS). Created in the 1990s to counter armed gangs, SARS gradually became discredited. Finally, in October 2020, after weeks of public protest, t...

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Main Author: Akali Omeni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hradec Králové 2022-12-01
Series:Modern Africa
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Online Access:https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/220
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