Furore As European Author Claims She Named #EndSARS Struggle ‘Soro-Soke’

The claim by Trish Lorenz, a journalist and the 2021/2022 US$100,000 Nine Dots Prize, has set Twitter on fire with tantrum-throwing Nigerian youths serving her the full length of their tongues What manner of intellectual immodesty? an associate Professor of Communication at Lagos State University, Tunde Akanni, asked rhetorically in a reaction to Lorenz claim European journalist and author Trish Lorenz has claimed that she christened young Nigerian protesters during the EndSARS struggle the “Soro-Soke,” generation. Platforms Africa reports that Sori-Soke, a phrase that gained popularity during the 2020 #EndSARS…

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