Sophie Bouillon tells Laure Manent how the Covid-19 pandemic and very hard confinement pushed the population to the limit, 70% of whom live in extreme poverty and were already exasperated by endemic corruption.
She mentions in particular the commitment of artists against this scourge or the brutal reaction of the authorities to the Lekki toll, in October 2020, where a dozen anti-corruption demonstrators were killed by the army.
The deputy director of the AFP office in Lagos also looks back on the events on which she works and which never leaves her indifferent, from the group kidnappings of children by armed gangs which demand ransom, to the "evictions", these displacements forced population, through Islamist terrorism and what she calls "editorial balancing act" that it imposes on journalists.
A book that is sometimes hard, often touching and always very alive, signed by the youngest holder of the Albert-Londres Prize, which Sophie Bouillon received in 2009, at the age of 24.
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