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Imagine scrolling through your social media feed one morning and stumbling on a video of yourself—your face, your voice, your mannerisms—saying something cruel, endorsing a product you have never used, or appearing in a situation you have never been in. For a split second, you might question your own memory.…
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There are moments when a court judgment lands in the middle of a country’s most sensitive debate and suddenly everyone has an opinion. That is exactly what has happened in South Africa after the Constitutional Court ruled on asylum seekers and the Refugees Act. The ruling is technical in nature, but it touches something deeply human: what happens to people who arrive at the border with nothing, fleeing danger, and ask for protection. The government’s Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration has responded by asking the public to take a breath. Stay calm, the committee says. Do not speculate. Do not share…
1. A Courtroom Waiting for Answers On a quiet Wednesday morning in Abuja, the air inside the Federal High Court felt heavy with anticipation, but the two women at the center of a painful and sensitive legal battle were not there. Nkiru Ulasi and Ogechukwu Angela, who stand accused of making false and devastating allegations against another woman, were absent when their case was called before Justice Binta Nyako. Their absence was not necessarily an act of defiance; sometimes the weight of a criminal summons can be overwhelming, or the practicalities of legal travel and personal circumstances simply get in…
