VERYDARKMAN: The Rise of Nigeria’s Digital Social Crusader

What happens when a society loses faith in its institutions? Nigeria found its answer in a phone camera.

In VeryDarkMan: The Rise of Nigeria’s Digital Social Crusader, Frederick Amakom delivers a gripping, unflinching examination of how one controversial online figure became a national force for accountability in a country plagued by silence, impunity, and selective justice.

This is not a biography—and it is not celebrity gossip.

It is a deep social analysis of , the digital activist who disrupted influencers, pastors, brands, and institutions by doing what Nigeria’s systems often failed to do: apply pressure.

Through carefully argued chapters, this book explores:

• Why Nigerian institutions lost public trust
• How social media replaced courts as a tool of accountability
• The ethics and dangers of public shaming
• Youth anger, digital activism, and the legacy of #EndSARS
• Arrests, intimidation, and the state’s fear of virality
• Whether VeryDarkMan is a solution—or a warning

Balanced, critical, and deeply Nigerian, this book refuses easy answers. It neither glorifies nor demonizes its subject. Instead, it asks the harder question:

Why did Nigeria need someone like VeryDarkMan in the first place?

For readers interested in Nigerian politics, social justice, media power, activism, and modern African society, this book offers insight into a moment that redefined public accountability—and the uncomfortable truths beneath it.