SOFREP Cartoon: See No Evil in Nigeria

While Nigerian churches collapse into ash, the powerful grope through the smoke with canes of denial, pretending to ignore the growing stench of genocide.

Blindfolds in the Firelight

Nigeria is burning, and not in the metaphorical sense the diplomats might prefer. Churches smolder where congregations once sang, and the corpses of believers fertilize the red earth. Yet the men in charge—both in Abuja and in newsrooms across the world—walk through the flames with dark glasses and white canes, pretending it’s all a trick of the light. In our decidedly dark cartoon, Tinubu’s grin is as hollow as the charred sanctuary behind him, and the mainstream media figure tagging along might as well be his seeing-eye dog. Together they shuffle through the wreckage, tapping out a grim rhythm of denial.

It’s a macabre dance of willful blindness, one where truth is inconvenient, so it’s better not to trip over it.

Selective Vision and Convenient Silence

This isn’t ignorance, it’s an art form. The global press can turn a blind eye faster than a cat in a sandstorm when the victims are Christians in Africa. Editorial boards that can spot microaggressions in Midtown Manhattan somehow lose signal when whole villages are erased in Plateau State.

It’s the same cynical reflex that’s kept Western governments mum: if you can’t fix it, ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, rename it.

Call it “ethnic tension,” “farmer-herder conflict,” or some other antiseptic phrase that lets everyone sleep better. Today’s graphic representation isn’t exaggeration—it’s a mirror held up to our collective cowardice.