One of the biggest misconceptions of the century is that femicide happens as a singular event and not as a coalesce of a series of abusive behaviours over time. Often, when conversations about femicide are had, we intentionally forget to…
When the sun was golden brown at its apex, Oluwakemi Adeyemi, a hairdresser at Aguda-Ogba, Lagos, had her first customer on a weekend. She told me that in previous years, she typically had customers from dawn to dusk from Friday…
What did the women before us do? We don't know enough about them because Nigerian history has habitually underrepresented women. They are rarely the main characters in the stories that make it into Nigerian classrooms and popular culture. Even when…
Today, on International Women’s Day, Nigeria will again witness an outpouring of solidarity. Social media will be flooded with hashtags, organisations will roll out themed flyers, and politicians may deliver rehearsed speeches. But when the day ends, and the spotlight…