We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands. This instalment is nuanced to pay tribute to one of our new ancestors, George Floyd, who was brutally murdered by racist white American police officers in Minneapolis, United States. To appreciate the scale of dehumanisation of the blacks, we need to come to grips with their history. The weight of this oppressive complex birthed what W.E.B Dubois called double consciousness in Souls of Black Folk. As Intervention, Nigerian analytical online medium has noted, “As complicated as the concept of indeterminacy, it applies to George Floyd catalysing interruption of the coronavirus imprisonment of humanity for nearly half a year.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2020 03:56 UTC