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EndSARS: A period of unrest in Nigeria from the lenses of three photographers.

        Mathew Oyedele Shortly after the Nigerian independence celebration in October 2020, Nigerian youth took to the streets in different cities across the country to protest against police brutality under the slogan, 'EndSARS'. SARS (Special Anti Robbery Squad) is a unit of the Nigerian police that is widely known for unlawful arrests, extortion, profiling, kidnapping, torture and killing of Nigerians. I could not join the protest physically as I was still evaluating the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on my practice as well as plan for the year when it all began but I joined online by tweeting aggressively. I saw videos and images of louts and thugs attacking the peaceful protesters; of police attacking them with teargas and   water cannons, of police harassing and arresting the protesters, of a politician who came out of his vehicle with a gun and shot in the air with two persons reportedly dead on the spot and many others. I was actively participating online until the 2