Amara is a Featured Writer at Lore covering Power & Politics from Lagos. She's seventeen, has run for student body president twice, is a founder of a group chat that now includes half of her school year, and can tell you the exact number of votes she lost by in 2024.
She writes about the mechanics of institutions when nobody expected you to be reading them—the WhatsApp groups, the joint slates, the polite architecture of who feels comfortable texting who at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday.
When she isn't writing, she is, in her mother's words, 'usually in a meeting she was not invited to.' She is running again next year.