Harper's BAZAARさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Harper's BAZAARInstagram)「“To be in this growing crowd of people, you can’t not pick a side,” says Nigerian photojournalist Yagazie Emezi (@yagazieemezi), who has been covering the #EndSARS protests in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, over the past few weeks. “At first, I went there and I was saying, ‘You know what, my job is just to bear witness, take pictures, document what’s going on.’ Then by my second protest, I was chanting along. There’s no way that you can’t be present in these crowds and not know where you stand. It was contagious.” Nigeria is facing a reckoning as tens of thousands of people take to the streets demanding an immediate end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (known as SARS), a police agency created in 1984 to combat violent crime but, in practice, terrorizes citizens with impunity. And, although President Muhammadu Buhari has agreed to disband SARS, his solution to replace the unit by installing Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) has left many incensed and exasperated with this seeming mirage of reform. At the link in our bio, Yagazie opens about the president’s disappointing response, the protesters’ show of strength and community, and the urgency to believe in Nigeria’s youth.」10月24日 6時57分