More than six decades after independence, Nigerians still wrestle with a hunger that goes beyond physical sustenance. It is a hunger for freedom in its truest form—freedom from corruption, inequality, and systems that seem to oppress rather than uplift. The promise of independence in 1960 was like a feast laid out before a starving nation, but what was served turned out to be scraps of what true liberation should mean.

Today, this hunger manifests in every corner of the country. It’s in the young...