A crowd of onlookers in an urban Nigerian street recording an incident with smartphones, illustrating how punishment has become shareable di

How Nigeria Turned Punishment Into Content

According to a recent Afrocritik essay titled “Justice Needs an Audience: How Nigeria Turned Punishment Into Content,” the spectacle of punishment has become a defining feature of how justice plays out in Nigeria’s digital public sphere. The piece argues that punitive moments — arrests, court appearances, public shaming — increasingly exist to be recorded, shared, […]

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