Author: Emmanuel Nwachukwu
Emmanuel Nwachukwu
Emmanuel Nwachukwu is a journalist who holds an MA in Communications and Media Studies from Cyprus International University and is a graduate of the World Journalism Institute (WJI). He is the co-founder of The Late Wire, media organization promoting Christian worldview engagements in the Nigerian public square. He lives in Abuja, Nigeria.
Emmanuel Nwachukwu/Partner News Agency. On a spring night in the mid-1990s, a teenage Ibrahim Alhassan awoke to a voice calling for Christians to step out of their dormitory rooms at Sani Dingyadi Unity Secondary School in Sokoto state, northwest Nigeria. A group of Muslim boys then ordered about 10 Christian high school students, including Alhassan, to crawl on their knees. The Muslims then beat them with sticks from a dongoyaro tree as the Christian boys crawled down the school hallways and out into the open fields. “They called us infidels,” Alhassan said. “To hate them was the easy thing. But I still…