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No Country for Mothers Women's Health in Northern Nigeria

Aisha Mukhtar DodoFebruary 23, 2017

Nigeria alone accounts for 14 per cent of global maternal mortality.

February/March 2017

Aisha Mukhtar Dodo

is a PhD candidate at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on bridging the social and cultural gaps in cancer management in Northern Nigeria.

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Today in 1997, Zaire was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo. #RxHistory⏳

On 17 May 1997, rebel forces entered Kinshasa causing then-President and dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, to go into exile. That same day, Laurent-Desire Kabila declared himself president of Zaire and reverted the country’s name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

This day is also celebrated as National Liberation Day in the DRC.

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📝: Ibukun Olokode and Ugonna Eronini
📷: A Congolese man waves the DRC flag. The Brookings Institution.

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Who were the people behind the Zikist Movement? #OnSite⚡

When you ask Nigerians about how Nigeria became an independent nation, three names usually emerge: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello. But before these prominent ‘founding fathers’ took the stage, many young Nigerians boldly faced the wrath of the British as a result of fierce and innovative anti-colonial resistance.

One such group of young people were the Zikists, a movement founded in the 1940s and inspired by the early revolutionary ideals of later first president of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe. In our latest online essay, Akintude Agunbiade explains that Zikists, ‘aspired to affect change where they felt existing pre-independence political platforms like the National Congress of British West Africa, Nigeria National Democratic Party, the West African Students Union (WASU) did not.’

Zikists pushed an anti-colonial and nationalist agenda by supporting strikes and instigating riots. According to Agunbiade, they ‘called for violent action against the British colonial government, and at a point, they even began plotting to assassinate high-ranking colonial officers.’

The Zikist Movement didn’t last very long. By 1950, colonial officers had banned the movement and had arrested its leadership. Despite this, Zikists had been successful in transforming the mindset of many Nigerians towards seeking independence from Britain.

At the link in our bio, read how the movement was started after a young journalist, Kola Balogun, wrote a letter to 20 young men in Lagos and why it was named after Azikiwe. Learn how young Nigerians like Balogun, Raji Abdallah, K. O. Mbadiwe and Nwafor Orizu and other early Zikists united across religious and ethnic lines despite facing persecution from the colonial government. Learn also what Zikism means today.
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📝: Akintude Agunbiade
📷: 1) Nnamdi Azikiwe. 17 January 1966. IMS Vintage Photos
2) L-R Eleanor Roosevelt, Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe, Mbonu Ojike. 13 December 1943. Bettmann / Getty Images
3) Nwafor Orizu. Unknown Photographer

Today in 1997, President Mobutu went into exile. #

Today in 1997, President Mobutu went into exile. #RxHistory⏳

On 16 May 1997, the president of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko, went into exile. Mobutu was president of Zaire (later renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 to 1997.

In 1996, Rwandan forces invaded Zaire to defeat Hutu rebel groups that had taken cover in Zaire. During the conflict, an anti-Mobutu coalition was formed. Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea, and Angola joined forces with local Zairean groups to remove Mobutu. Mobutu’s reign was characterized by political repression, economic crises and human rights abuses.

Read more about Mobutu in today’s newsletter which goes out at 6 p.m. (WAT). Sign up at the link in our bio.
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📝: Ibukun Olokode and Ugonna Eronini
📷: President Mobutu c. December 1966. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

‘Night Dancer’ — Chika Unigwe w/ @tamunosiki

‘Night Dancer’ — Chika Unigwe w/ @tamunosikii

‘I suffered terrible lethargy at the beginning of the pandemic, unable to do/read anything that wasn’t work-related or write anything that wasn’t commissioned. I am grateful for those commissions for getting me to write. However, something happened towards the end of last year that got me out of the funk I was in. I finished the first draft of a new novel, and I am reading a lot for pleasure again.’

Have you read this book? What did you think about it? For more book recommendations, click the link in our bio.
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According to Segun-Lean, leaders regularly confront Nigerians with crises that keep Nigerians distracted, and left in a permanent state of survival. He explains that in Nigeria the goal of ‘leaders’ has been to, ‘dissociate a people from any real scale of human tragedy, convince them that a world in which their lives are always forfeit is normal. A world where it is natural and expected to die in a stampede of 20,000 people scrambling to secure limited seats for a recruitment test.’ ⁠
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According to Segun-Lean, ‘Nothing “makes sense” in Nigeria because nothing was designed to make sense. The denial of sense, of the reasonable and justifiable, of proportion, is critical to the status quo.’⁠
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Read the full essay by clicking the link in our bio.⁠
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📝: Joshua Segun-Lean⁠

Today in 2002, Lady Kofoworola Ademola died aged 8

Today in 2002, Lady Kofoworola Ademola died aged 88. #RxHistory⏳

On 15 May 2002, Nigerian educationist and women’s rights advocate, Lady Kofoworola Ademola (née Moore), died at the age of 88. Born on 21 May 1913, Lady Kofoworola Ademola was a lifetime advocate of women and girls’ education.

In 1935, she became the first Black African woman to graduate from the University of Oxford, where she earned a degree in Education and English from St Hugh’s College.

After graduating, Lady Kofo went on to become an educator in Nigeria. She worked at Queens College, Lagos from 1936 to 1938, and then became the co-founder and principal of New-Era Girls’ Secondary School, also in Lagos.

She was the first president of the National Council of Women Societies in Nigeria from 1958 to 1964. She continued to write and educate into her final years, most notably through her authorship of children’s books.

Lady Kofo was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire and Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR). She was also the Mojibade of Ake and the Lika of Ijemo.
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📝: Tunrie Bisi-Afolabi
📷: Lady Kofoworola Ademola. Unknown Photographer

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