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  • 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
  • Rape: Heightened Sexual Violence During Month of Love
  • Tips for the YALI RLC Application
  • DRENCHED IN CONFUSION THIS NEW YEAR?
  • 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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    Rape: Heightened Sexual Violence During Month of Love

    February 14, 2020

    The day after #16daysofActivism

    December 11, 2019

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

    July 4, 2020
  • 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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    The Beginning

    September 2, 2019

    Rape: Heightened Sexual Violence During Month of Love

    February 14, 2020

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

    July 4, 2020
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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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    To all my Ladies.

    October 11, 2018

    Let me tell you about my sister

    September 18, 2018

    Men, I hope you allow yourself be human.

    November 19, 2018
  • Articles

    Marriage Is Not For Every Woman

    June 24, 2019

    I know exactly what I typed. Yes, that’s exactly what I meant to type. Now, before you feel a type of way, do note that I did not say “any” woman, because then, that would be another type of baloney. It’s tiring, to say the least, the way we manage to connect even the most casual cords in a woman’s life to marriage and someone she may someday be joined with. What’s even more tiring is the way that has been made the only acceptable reality. If you speak and your voice is a little too clear, you hear things like “is it someone like you that will find a…

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    He Called Me Ashawo

    May 9, 2019

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

    July 4, 2020

    Men, I hope you allow yourself be human.

    November 19, 2018
  • Articles

    The Sword Knows No Face

    April 25, 2019

    “He was such a smart boy. He promised to always look after me and make my life better. He was too good for this world.” – Anne-Marie Uwimana, Rwandan Genocide Survivor, speaking of her son who was one of the 800,000 souls lost in the genocide of 1994. This woman, Anne-Marie, lost four children and her husband during the genocide. Even now, typing this, I can see her face in that BBC interview; the redness of her eyes and the brokenness that can be seen in it. I can see the many tales of time that the skin of her hands have to tell – tales of a pain so…

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    Men, I hope you allow yourself be human.

    November 19, 2018

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

    April 13, 2020

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

    July 4, 2020
  • Articles

    A being, BEing

    March 8, 2019

    Mama Tolu works very hard, the quintessential Nigerian mother. She wakes up at 4am while the world still sleeps and the spirits are prowling to cook and clean. When its 5:30, she wakes up the entire household; children for school, husband for work. She deploys her 3 pairs of hands to dish everyone’s food, while matching mixed socks, doing the dishes as they get piled up in the sink and refereeing fights that break out when the children break out fully from their sleepy state. At 7:30, she’s almost bouncing to get the kids to school and oh yes, there is herself to get ready because she probably has to…

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

    April 13, 2020

    Men, I hope you allow yourself be human.

    November 19, 2018

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

    July 4, 2020
  • Thoughts

    Love Yours

    February 14, 2019

    It’s hard, isn’t it, to truly love yourself in a world that is so fixated on your body parts, the way you should look, talk, walk, dress. In a world that is bent on defining you. The beauty industry is worth billions of dollars globally, a lot of it built on our insecurities with one or more parts of our body. They set up a standard and say “look, this is what you should aspire to.” You say “what nonsense! I’m not about that life.” But then these messages don’t stop; they creep up on you until one day, you wake up and everything about your body is exactly everything…

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    Notes from IdeaCon Enugu

    August 1, 2019

    What Do We Do With Different

    October 25, 2018

    DRENCHED IN CONFUSION THIS NEW YEAR?

    January 2, 2020
  • Articles

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

    December 26, 2018

    BY TAWAKALIT KAREEM   Silence, That magic wand that we wave in the hope that what has been done can be undone. The inaction we exhibit to somehow dull the deafening crash that a certain action has caused. Silence is the tool that we have by ourselves, made a weapon in the hands of the abuser. Some people are of the opinion that the occurrence of abuse seems to have increased in recent times. I disagree. I think the difference in this day and time is; there is social media and the very real reality that a story can go viral in a matter of minutes. My friend, Adebola Aduwo,…

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    A being, BEing

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    April 13, 2020

    He Called Me Ashawo

    May 9, 2019
  • Thoughts

    What Do We Do With Different

    October 25, 2018

    The Armenian Genocide began in 1915, during World War 1, when the Armenians were murdered and displaced from their cities. At the final lap of this atrocity in 1922, it was reported that between 700,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were murdered. In the space of over a decade from 1933 when the Nazis came to power in Germany, over 6 million Jews and 6 million non-Jews – Blacks, Roma, Slavic groups – were killed during the holocaust. And barely 24 years ago, the world bore witness to the Rwandan Genocide, which took place between April and July of 1994. The death toll is put at between 500,000 to 1 million…

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    Love Yours

    February 14, 2019

    Notes from IdeaCon Enugu

    August 1, 2019

    DRENCHED IN CONFUSION THIS NEW YEAR?

    January 2, 2020
  • Articles

    To all my Ladies.

    October 11, 2018

    Today, October 11, is the International Day of the Girl. Today, I look back on the time that I have lived, and while a lot of things still irk me as it relates to society’s perception and relation with the girl child, I am excited about the lines we have erased and the dents we’ve made on the ceiling. A lot of people who know me will describe me as confident and self-assured, but I can assure you, I didn’t wake up like this. It took years of deliberate conditioning – of my mind, my outlook on life and how I fit into this equation. My father has been a…

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    That’s the thing; Privilege should come with Responsibility

    October 31, 2019

    Rape: Heightened Sexual Violence During Month of Love

    February 14, 2020

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

    December 26, 2018

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