In Daughter in Exile, Bisi Adjapon unearths the many factors that promote gender-based violence (GBV), patriarchy, male dominance, societal double standards, cultural norms, lack of support systems, economic independence, and societal judgment. She portrayed how these factors create a vulnerable…
Mariama Ba’s epistolary novel offers an honest critique of patriarchal norms in the post-colonial Senegalese. Framed as a personal letter from a Senegalese schoolteacher, Ramatoulaye, to her Aissatou, who lives abroad. The novel explores the themes of female solidarity, female…
You know that moment at a poetry reading when the poet reads a line, and it hits you at the right spot in your chest, such that you begin to snap your fingers and scream: “Yes, yes, yes”? I felt…
Since the missionaries brought religion (Christianity) to Nigeria back in the 15th century, the Christian faith has greatly evolved in terms of sects, ideologies, beliefs, doctrines, principles and more. Religious psychosis or delusion is one of the aspects that has…