Editor’s Note: Rinu Oduala is the founder and director of Connect Hub Nigeria, an online platform for building social networks and organizing mass movements. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion on CNN.
Lagos
CNN
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As the sun began to rise over the bustling city of Lagos, Nigeria, a group of young people dressed in t-shirts and jeans were already gathered outside a polling station.
Joining the slow-moving queue, these young, educated voters had one common goal – to make a difference.
They had grown up in a country plagued by corruption, poverty and political instability, and were tired of waiting for change to come from the top. They remember the day, in October 2020, when the sound of gunshots and screams filled the air as the military opened fire on unarmed protesters in Lagos, the second-largest…
