I, like most people who were raised in Nigeria, held traditional & problematic views when I was younger.
In his inaugural address delivered to the University of St Andrews in February 1867, John Stuart Mill said: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” Mill’s words are valid till today and are especially worth considering as…
Some parts of Igboland have an interesting way of welcoming people into a new day. We ask, “I boola chi”, which means “Have you broken the dawn”. It is a beautiful phrase which works both literally and metaphorically. To break the dawn (or daybreak) means to break the darkness…
A few years ago, in the early days of my interactions with feminists and feminist allies on Twitter, I used to be saddened by situations I thought could have been handled with more patience and tact. Very often I would take my friends to task for taking the aggressive route in their…
“Men hate women”
Feminists say it pretty often and they genuinely believe it to be true. However, most men vehemently disagree.
How can he hate women? He thinks about the women in his life: his sisters, his…
“Woman was merely man’s helpmate, a function which pertains to her…
Honestly, before I started writing this article, I don’t think I really understood the extent to which women have…
I like to look at the current world as though I am reading history. Considering the plethora of events that occur on a daily basis it is easy to get consumed by current affairs. Looking at the present as though I am looking at the past helps me connect dots in ways that I…
There are two types of people:
People who strongly believe that when a woman gets sexually assaulted or raped, she contributed to it in some way, by wearing (or doing) something.
