THE DOGS AND THE BABOONS

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The Dogs and the Baboons explores the near total absence of human rights protection in Nigeria and canvasses for a “human rights revolution” as the starting point to reforming the country. It is written in an informal style and makes a conscious effort to jettison formality in favour of a light-hearted and conversational style of writing. It mixes humour, street language, legal experiences, and news reports, in covering a breadth of subjects. In the main, it covers the observance of a variety of recognised human rights, borrowing from the author’s experiences as a lawyer in one of the country’s leading law firms and the son of one of the country’s leading activists. The book discusses ingrained practices and topics such as mob violence, police brutality, servitude, religious intolerance, poverty, and corruption amongst others, explaining how a national human rights acculturation could curtail and ultimately eradicate these challenges.

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