Hashtag Endsars as Political Activism in Nigeria: On Doing Christian Theology in an Age of Anxiety and Terror
This article reflects the serious agony of Nigerians which was demonstrated from the year 2020 as the #Endsars protest. Three years now, yet the surging problems of systemic injustices against the poor people of Nigeria have not been solved or adjusted to the right sense of justice. In the midst of the Endsars protests in Nigeria, I wrote a short sentence to friends on face book showing my optimism even in the midst of the chaos we see around us, that this Endsars protest for me is the birth pangs of Nigeria in the process of giving birth to a new Nigeria with a human face, a new nation that would rise to the needs and voices of its citizens. Now using an advocacy method of voicing the frustration and agonies of the voiceless within liberation theology discourse, I present this article as an advocacy for justice as key to human dignity which will be made possible only in the living hope for true justice in and through Jesus Christ. Thus in this essay I present my argument of the sociopolical struggles of Nigeria among many other nations of the world for the birth of a new social and political order of human rights and dignity for all. In this essay, the idea of political theology has been discussed in the midst of the social history of the rise and use of social media for political activism. It recognizes the dangers and terrors of our time and also articulates the hope that we have in the person of Jesus Christ in this world. Thus Nigeria is open to new face of hope and political theology that hears the voices of those who mourn and cry for justice and for the coming of God to heal and restore.
