Women
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Featured
Book Review: Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
In Second Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta exposes the oppressions of patriarchy, gendered roles, racism, and colonial legacies through the life of Adah Ofili. Published in 1974, the themes of the novel remain relevant in the…
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Featured
Remembering the Slave Trade Without Women Is a Lie
It’s International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, a day meant to recall one of the greatest crimes against humanity, yet remembrance has become predictable, filled with numbers and familiar…
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News
7.3 million Nigerian Women, Girls suffer from Undernutrition, Minister of Women Affairs Reveals
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has revealed that 15 per cent of Nigerian girls aged 15 to 19 are already mothers or impregnated by men. She also said that…
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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…
