Soyinka On a Monday two weeks ago, reports of attacks, abductions, unrest, and sectarian clashes in Borno, Niger, Lagos, Rivers, Kebbi, Kaduna, Oyo, Osun, and Benue states were reported all in one day. This type of unrest is not unusual. Bandit attacks and kidnapping are now commonplace. Ethnic and religious leaders warn their followers of mass violence against them, increasing fears and tensions that inspire more violence. Violence fueled by a potent mix of dangerous speech speech that increases the risk for violence and age-long grievances is growing. The worst form of profiling is taking place with tropes and stereotypes of groups used to propagate negative perceptions of them. Wole Soyinka, the widely-admired Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize laureate, has recently warned of possible genocide. With the spill-over of violence in the south of the country, it is urgent that we address dangerous speech and its fueling of cyclical violence.
Views: Visits 5 On a Monday two weeks ago, reports of attacks, abductions, unrest, and sectarian clashes in Borno, Niger, Lagos, Rivers, Kebbi, Kaduna, Oyo, Osun, and Benue states were reported all in one day. This type of unrest is not unusual. Bandit attacks and kidnapping are now commonplace. Ethnic and religious leaders warn their followers of mass violence against them, increasing fears and tensions that inspire more violence. Violence fuelled by a potent mix of dangerous speech speech that increases the risk for violence and age-long grievances is growing. The worst form of profiling is taking place with tropes and stereotypes of groups used to propagate negative perceptions of them.
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio decided to write
The Undocumented Americans the day after the 2016 presidential election, though her first piece on immigration was published when she was a Harvard senior (byline: Anonymous). Anonymous no more, she has since written for the
New Yorker,
The Atlantic,
The New Republic, and ELLE.com, among others, and her National Book Award-shortlisted nonfiction book came out in paperback today.
The Ecuador-born Villavicencio once wrote about music for a jazz publication and indie rock blogs (she dreamed of fronting a rock band as a kid, but didn’t have access to instruments or lessons, so she became a music writer instead), is a PhD candidate at Yale, has a Boston terrier named Frankie, was an Emerson Collective Fellow, likes birds and CBD oil, and loves singing along to breakup anthems played at top volume with tears in her eyes. “That’s what I want my YA novel,
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