When an irresistible society meets an immovable state. 

Up against the wall, Tinubu will need his famed political savvy—and more—to stanch rising discontent in Nigeria.   

When conventional tools of resistance have failed or been compromised, humor has been a weapon of last resort for the African subaltern.  

Within the space of a few months, fifty-five-year-old evangelist Olufunmilayo Adebayo, popularly known as Mummy G.O., has gone from the relative obscurity of downscale Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, to the most discussed subject in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism. The target of a blizzard of savage internet memes and unrelenting mockery, the founder and leader of the self-styled Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God (RAPEC) has been getting all the attention in a context where the leading—and mostly male—clerical figures dominate the news as a matter of course.