International Women’s Day

The Tyranny of Corporate Women’s Day Campaigns How Corporate Women’s Day Campaigns Are Losing Women

Sylvia UkpongApril 13, 2023

Each year on 08 March, the International Women’s Day celebration is marked by corporate entities all over the world rolling up their sleeves and putting on a performance of allyship, and Nigerian companies are not left out.

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Interim Royals The Marginalization of Women-Regents in Present-Day Yoruba Monarchy

Foyin EjilolaMarch 23, 2023

Yoruba culture, particularly traditional leadership, holds that men are superior to women, so they dominate governance at most levels while women are considered unfit to lead in most cases. On these grounds, for women to assume the position of regents, tradition demands they discard their identities.

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Wana Udobang’s Gospel of Freedom The Liberating Power of Storytelling

Immaculata AbbaMarch 21, 2023

‘I know now that stories are infinite and everywhere,’ Wana Udobang says. ‘Some stories are urgent, some aren’t, there are always new stories to tell. This is part of my liberation practice: that life is infinite.’

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‘I Wish I Had More Time to Write for Leisure’ Aby Sène’s First Draft

Aby L. SèneMarch 17, 2023

Senegalese academic and author, Aby Sène, believes pan-Africanism should not be presented in an alienating way.

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Cracking the Glass Ceiling Aisha Binani’s Blueprint for Leadership

Gbope OnigbanjoMarch 15, 2023

As APC’s flagbearer for the 2023 gubernatorial elections in Adamawa State, Aisha Binani stands the chance to become Nigeria's first elected female governor.

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‘A First Draft Is a First Draft’ Kuukuwa Manful’s First Draft

Kuukuwa ManfulMarch 10, 2023

Ghanaian architect, Kuukuwa Manful, hopes her work re-evaluate the discourse and study of African architecture.

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Lesley Lokko Prepares for Venice What Africa as a Future Laboratory for Architecture Means

Michael Chiedoziem ChukwuderaMarch 9, 2023

In curating the Biennale Architettura 2023 in Venice in May, Lesley Lokko is set to make history as the exhibition’s first Black architect. Lokko’s career as an architect has been eclectic but always revolving around the subject of Africa’s past, present and future.

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