"When l saw the call for artists for the "banality of evil in our daily lives" l felt a strong urge to explore the deliberate act of children's exploitation as "zombie bombers" due to brainwashing. Hannah Arendth's question when she reported for the New Yorker in 1961 in the trial against Adolph Eichmann, "can one do evil without being evil. I remembered an incident that happened in June 2019 in Konduga village in Northern Eastern Borno state Nigeria. Two girls and a boy carried out the bombing outside a video hall. Children are the future leaders of tomorrow, they have the right to education. A child cannot be evil when he or she has not seen the bad in the world. The mind of a child is innocent, playful, open-minded and unrestrained by the inner voice of reason or fear of failure. How can a human being exploit the child-like mind and subject these adorable children to such a banality act?"
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