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Electoral Act Amendment: The Misogyny Behind Feminising Godswill Akpabio to Express “Incompetence”
Summary: Amid outrage over the Electoral Act amendment, critics of Godswill Akpabio resorted to feminising him to imply incompetence. This article argues that such rhetoric is misogynistic and distracts from real accountability. Nigeria’s political failures…
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Gelentine Day: 5 African Books That Celebrate Female Relationships
Summary: While the world celebrates heterosexual love on Valentine’s Day, Naija Feminists Media highlights books that celebrate female friendship, showing it is equally a powerful and awesome kind of love. In African literature, the most…
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Why Female Circumcision in The Gambia is still FGM. No Harm and Happy Marriage Claim Fails
Summary: In a recent post by BBC News Africa reporting the news on the Gambia government lifting the ban against female genital mutilation, a Gambian user commented saying that in Gambia they don’t practice FGM but…
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The Women Behind Africa’s Leading Banks
Over the past two decades, the Nigerian banking industry has witnessed a remarkable transformation, with women leading their growth. At the frontier are nine women who are changing the narrative of the country’s financial sector…
