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Analysis
Policing Without Guns: Magnifying Slut-shaming in Nigerian X Space
In Nigerian digital spaces, moral policing has become naturalised, with many discourses centring on what a female can and can’t do on social media. This is no different from colonial times, when women’s bodies were…
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Mainstream
Backlash as Man Brags About Denying Sister University Education Over Household Chores
A Nigerian man identified as Ade omo Ade on X has sparked outrage on social media after boasting about how he and his brothers once denied their sister university education for refusing to do household…
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Opinion
Romanticising Submission Reinforces Patriarchy
The whole “I just want to be soft and submissive” thing isn’t happening in a vacuum. The problem isn’t that a woman expresses a preference for it. It’s that those words are not neutral. They…
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Opinion
Ode to Nigerian Men: You Are Not at War, You Are on Twitter
There are over 200 countries today, and fewer than ten countries are engaged in formal war (a war between sovereign states and which is usually the type invoked in online discourses). By contrast, 250 babies…
