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  • Mother. Woman: Interrogating Identity Overlaps and Divergence
  • Miss, Ms., Mrs.
  • When is a Body deserving of having Violence visited upon it?
  • Uwa was raped and murdered in Church. Do you have any other questions?
  • She’s 15: Teenage girls are not objects of your perverse sexual fantasy
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    Mother. Woman: Interrogating Identity Overlaps and Divergence

    May 13, 2024

    In her opening statement on Episode 7 of The Leading Woman Show, Governance Series, one of the speakers, Oyeyemi Immanuel Aderibigbe, said something that stood out to me. She said, “I am a mother. I am a woman. This is my space, my territory. I have the right to be those things, and I have everything that it takes.” I thought it was powerful because she said this in the backdrop of how the community shapes how mothers mother, the expectations that are set from how the women before us mothered, and how the threads that are built between us as members of our communities influence how we think we…

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    Notes from IdeaCon Enugu

    August 1, 2019
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    Miss, Ms., Mrs.

    January 3, 2024

    Love Yours

    February 14, 2019
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    Miss, Ms., Mrs.

    January 3, 2024

    When I was in secondary school, majority of my classmates were born in either 1993, 1994, or 1995. When I thought about that a few days ago, I thought, “Would you look at that? The new class, if you may, of the third decade of life.” Now, I started thinking about all of these because of the video of a Chinese woman I watched on X on the precipice of saying goodbye to another year. In China, she said, if you’re a woman, single, and over 30, you are called a “left-over woman” in Mandarin. In Cantonese, they have a few choice phrases including, “orange at the bottom of the…

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    Mother. Woman: Interrogating Identity Overlaps and Divergence

    May 13, 2024

    Notes from IdeaCon Enugu

    August 1, 2019

    DRENCHED IN CONFUSION THIS NEW YEAR?

    January 2, 2020
  • Thoughts

    When is a Body deserving of having Violence visited upon it?

    July 5, 2023

    I had a spirited conversation (read: argument) with my driving instructor and another student yesterday. No, it wasn’t about my reverse technique (which is atrocious, by the way. Wish me luck next class). What was it about, then? We were on the road doing a test-run when he suddenly blurted about a mad girl, followed quickly by a tirade of words. I was confused; “did something happen?” “Ahn ahn, didn’t you see that girl we just passed that her whole belly is outside and her short is barely covering anything?” I didn’t. I had been minding my business. So, I said, “Oh, I didn’t.” It would have ended there, but…

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    Notes from IdeaCon Enugu

    August 1, 2019

    What Do We Do With Different

    October 25, 2018
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    Miss, Ms., Mrs.

    January 3, 2024
  • Articles

    Uwa was raped and murdered in Church. Do you have any other questions?

    July 4, 2020

    When the Mirabel Centre launched the #JusticeForUwa campaign on the 31st of May in response to the violent rape and murder of 22 year old Uwaila Omozuwa at a Church in Benin, the fire spread quickly across the internet with many enraged at the incident and determined to pursue justice. Nigerians, home and abroad, lent their voices to the campaign and passionately asked for gaps they could stand in, to ensure that Uwa’s murderer doesn’t keep walking the streets after prematurely ending her life. We were still reeling from the all too familiar pain of that loss when we were hit across the face with another woman whose death in…

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    Rape: Heightened Sexual Violence During Month of Love

    February 14, 2020

    She’s 15: Teenage girls are not objects of your perverse sexual fantasy

    April 13, 2020

    Seasons

    September 4, 2018
  • Articles

    She’s 15: Teenage girls are not objects of your perverse sexual fantasy

    April 13, 2020

    On Saturday, the 11th of April, Yul Edochie, a Nigerian actor, took to Twitter to celebrate his daughter on her 15th birthday. His message was innocuous, and one would expect, as in most situations where a person wishes their loved one a ‘happy birthday’ on social media, that others would join them in celebrating. The messages quickly took a disturbing turn when grown men inundated the comments by not only making sexually suggestive comments about this teenage girl’s body but also making remarks about her virginity or assumed lack of it. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I wasn’t. And that, knowing that this is a reality…

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    Call a thing by its name

    January 17, 2019

    The day after #16daysofActivism

    December 11, 2019

    The Sword Knows No Face

    April 25, 2019
  • Articles

    Rape: Heightened Sexual Violence During Month of Love

    February 14, 2020

    In 2015, Soladoye Ige (not real name) was reported to have told the Police that he decided to rape his girlfriend as a celebration of Valentine’s Day. Why? Well, because she wouldn’t have sex with him. For him, sex was necessary as a symbol of the day’s significance so of course, why should it matter that she didn’t want any part of it especially since they had an established sexual relationship? Last year, in India, there was the case of a 24 year old man who raped his 18 year old friend on Valentine’s Day. According to the victim, they had only become friends a few months back and so…

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    Call a thing by its name

    January 17, 2019

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    September 4, 2018

    Tips for the YALI RLC Application

    January 12, 2020
  • Articles

    Tips for the YALI RLC Application

    January 12, 2020

    It is okay if you’ve applied for YALI once before and your application was unsuccessful. That’s the story of my first application, too. The second one, though? That was a home run that gave me an opportunity to not only deepen my knowledge, but also learn from other young Africans. That’s the first thing I’d say to you; don’t disqualify yourself on the basis of a past application. You have likely grown in that time, and I truly hope you’ll allow yourself give it a second shot. Or a third. The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) was launched by the United States government as an effort to invest in the…

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    The day after #16daysofActivism

    December 11, 2019

    That’s the thing; Privilege should come with Responsibility

    October 31, 2019

    To all my Ladies.

    October 11, 2018
  • Thoughts

    DRENCHED IN CONFUSION THIS NEW YEAR?

    January 2, 2020

    Yesterday, I put up a question on my Instagram Story, asking people to share their 2020 ask in one word. My word was ‘Courage’; I am asking the universe for an abundance of it. When the answers came back, I noticed that for a lot of people, ‘Clarity’ is their word for the year. Hours ago, I had a conversation about how dreams become heavier the older we become. How, if we’re not careful, they lose that shine youth possesses in abundance and begin to take on a dull hue that threatens one’s sanity. The price for failure becomes steeper. I studied Microbiology at the University. It was a course…

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    Mother. Woman: Interrogating Identity Overlaps and Divergence

    May 13, 2024

    What Do We Do With Different

    October 25, 2018

    When is a Body deserving of having Violence visited upon it?

    July 5, 2023
  • Articles

    The day after #16daysofActivism

    December 11, 2019

    Just in case you are wondering, the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is an annual campaign that begins on the 25th of November – the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – and ends on the 10th of December – Human Rights Day. Fitting, isn’t it? The purpose of this annual campaign is to raise awareness of the numerous ways that women are exposed to violence simply by virtue of being women, share information on how we all as the larger society can be better allies to women, and fuel existing conversations around women safety. The theme for this year is Orange the World: Generation…

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    She’s 15: Teenage girls are not objects of your perverse sexual fantasy

    April 13, 2020

    Silence, and our culpability as a society in the culture of sexual abuse

    December 26, 2018

    To all my Ladies.

    October 11, 2018
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    That’s the thing; Privilege should come with Responsibility

    October 31, 2019

    Two weeks ago, I was at the University of Lagos for the monthly seminar organized for PEIFFUND mentees, whom I happen to be one of. The topic of concern was “Communication Skills” so you can probably imagine how interactive it got. After the session, in the spirit of that interaction, four of us got into a conversation about feminism; I and 3 young men who I have gotten to know over the past few months. Now, this article is not a run-down of our conversation, but I’d like to highlight a few things that I think we all need to pay attention to in the way that we show up…

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    Call a thing by its name

    January 17, 2019

    Marriage Is Not For Every Woman

    June 24, 2019

    A being, BEing

    March 8, 2019
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