Three hundred years ago, the archetypal ‘social activist’ was already present in the land. Abd al-Rahman al-Khatib ibn Bint al-hajj al-Barnawi, a cleric, condemned the social elite of the Kanem-Bornu Empire for their tyranny and corruption. He railed against rich merchants who hoarded food durin
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