“If you control the media, you control the people”: Kids say the funniest things.

Can Humour Disrupt the "Shock Doctrine"?

How do we reclaim our agency in a world that thrives on crisis? My latest work, Echoes of the Shock Doctrine: Comedy, Colonialism, and Control, explores the unsettling interplay between power, trauma, and the creative "pauses" that allow us to fight back.

Drawing on Naomi Klein’s theories of disaster capitalism and the revolutionary legacy of Fela Kuti, this dissertation navigates through the censored histories of Nigeria, the "rage bait" of modern digital algorithms, and the profound, often humorous insights of children.

By examining how "shocks" are used to manufacture compliance, I explore how satire, surrealism, and storytelling act as vital disruptors to systems of control.

This is an invitation to look at collective trauma not as a finality, but as something that can be "unloaded" to reclaim our national and personal identities.

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If you control the media , you control the people Kids say the funniest things. Ama Muot

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