Fighting crime with kitchen spoons
How a group of women from Southern Nigeria protected their community from crime and violence.
A few years ago, the town of Anam in Southern Nigeria was known for all the wrong reasons: high levels of crime and knife and gun violence. A group of local women, known as 'ụmụadas', decided to take matters into their own hands and confronted criminals with... their kitchen spoons. Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Igbo editor Adline Okere, who is an ụmụada herself, has the story. Plus, how Subagunam Kannan's passion for filming ants in his own house led him to make a viral video for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Tamil, and a train journey through Thailand and Laos with Thuong Le from Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Vietnamese.
Produced by Alice Gioia and Hannah Dean.
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)
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