Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers is an illustration of what we can learn about a society and a state from a dispute.
The background to the #EndSARS protests and celebrating a movement that challenges Nigeria’s ruling class.
In Nigeria, protests against police brutality are mounting. In Kenya, however, new security laws that undermine police and military accountability are being passed.
For a country laden with lots of unresolved high and low profile homicides, the need for better forensic models, better cooperations, and a seamless judicial system...
The National Coroner Service Act 2017 availed an opportunity for independent forensic documentation and reporting by qualified pathologists in the case of extrajudicial killings by police....
Waiting for increasingly elusive work at stakeouts without shelter and facing police harassment is the itinerant washerwomen’s daily lot in this COVID-19 season.
The Tanzanian Police Force has been a major obstacle in people’s efforts to fight for justice and democratic reforms. Its heavy-handed approach towards the government’s opponents...
America needs a cure for what amounts to a psychosis affecting a significant part of white American culture, brought on by centuries of being steeped in...
The murders of George Floyd and prove what we already knew—police “reform” has failed.
The Elephant in conversation with Peter Kiama, Executive Director, IMLU.
And maybe one day, in another August, outcomes will be different.
According to a damning report by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, ever since the announcement of the results of the 8 August 2017 election, the...