‘Why should women sacrifice their dreams for the the family? This question lingers throughout Folusho’s debut novel, The Parlour Wife. In a society, where being a woman comes at a
Today is July 30, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, and Nigerian women and girls are still being trafficked across West Africa and Europe for prostitution. This mostly happens through
Over the years, I have heard people erroneously describe quid pro quo Sexual Assault (SA) as tit for tat. I first heard it in an old Nollywood movie where the
In an ordinary reader’s eyes, Chimamanda Adichie’s novel Dream Count tells the interconnected stories of four women. But it’s really about how men shape and distort women’s lives, enabled by
Emmanuella Vincent, fondly known as Ella Vin, is an unapologetic Nigerian feminist and content writer who uses poetry and storytelling as tools to confront power and challenge injustice. Through her
Twenty-five-year-old Kofo Komolafe’s fear of rejection started when her father abandoned her. Kofo’s father is alive— she knows that much. She has tried a few times to contact him, but
If you have ever lived in a female dorm, spent lots of time with your girlie besties, or worked in a women-dominated workplace, chances are you have experienced menstrual cramps,
“While diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programmes are great, they offer partial solutions to systemic oppression, they are half-baked reliefs, they are not end points. Hence, effort should go further
Family, societal expectations, women’s worth, and self-discovery marked Lizzie Damilola’s debut novel. Although Africans arguably have lived beyond the ideology that a woman ends up in the kitchen, their brains
Owolabi Misturah Abisola, fondly known as Misty, is an award-winning creative copywriter whose team delivered Nigeria’s first Cannes Lions-winning campaign in 2023 with Soot City Life Expectancy. She is also
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