Lethal illegitimacy and the right to protest in Nigeria

About 115 years ago, in 1909, Walter Egerton, the Barrister-turned-colonial administrator, and then Governor, introduced the Sedition Ordinance into the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. This drew a sharp response from Christopher Sapara Williams, Nigeria’s first lawyer, himself the son of an Egba mother and an Ijesha father, who challenged the Ordinance, describing it […]

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