From Ideology to Protest: Essays on Gender and Feminism

Headies, Your Misogyny is Showing Female Nigerian Artists are Still Fighting for Rights in 2023

Victoria AuduSeptember 10, 2023

The 2023 Headies Awards were just another reminder of how women continue to be sidelined in the Nigerian music industry. While male categories were celebrated on stage, female categories were left unannounced and only posted on social media.

August/September 2023

The Indelible Life of Ama Ata Aidoo A Personal Reflection

Nii Ayikwei ParkesSeptember 1, 2023

Growing up in Ghana in the 1980s, there were certain writers you didn’t escape. Ama Ata Aidoo, who passed away in May 2023, was one such writer, Nii Ayikwei Parkes writes. Hers is a timeless legacy of a writer who triumphed over the double battle of high-level literary creation and persistent erasure, and became one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers.

August/September 2023GhanaReadingvol7-no3

In the Company of Women On Writing and Reading Women as Historical Actors

Peace Yetunde OnafuyeApril 17, 2023

Celebrating women should extend to the kinds of stories we tell about women. These stories should reflect the diversity of their lived experiences, the multiplicity of their work, and the varying ways women express their individual thoughts and perspectives.

April/May 2023Nigeria

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.

April/May 2023International Women's DayNigeria

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.

February/March 2023International Women's DayInternational Women's Day - CultureInternational Women's Day - EssaysNigeria

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.

February/March 2023International Women's Day - CultureNigeriaNigeria Decides 2023: Essays

Women, More or Less A Political Solution to Gender-Based Violence

Emitomo Tobi NimisireDecember 18, 2022

To end gender-based violence start by including more women in politics. Women make up half of Nigeria's population, but they have never held more than 15 per cent of elective offices. There has never even been a female governor or president in Nigeria.

December 2022International Women's Day - EssaysNigeria

Afro-Literati The Nardal Sisters and the Négritude Movement

Kai MoraAugust 1, 2022

The Nardal sisters’ collective legacies underscore the significant role women played in shaping Black identity across the pan-African world and politics. Read more

August/September 2022Best of 2022International Women's Day - History

Elizabeth Adekogbe and the Women’s Movement of Nigeria How Elizabeth Adekogbe’s Nationalism Promoted Women

Tomisin AwosikaMay 12, 2022

Elizabeth Adekogbe was a nationalist, journalist, teacher, and women’s rights activist, who was the founder and leader of the Women’s Movement of Nigeria. Read more.

April/May 2022Editors Picks: Independence DayNigeria