Africa’s Lost Decade Women and the Structural Adjustment Programme
It has been more than 30 years since the Structural Adjustment era swept across the African continent, but its impact on various economies cannot be discounted.... Read More...
Gender & Feminism
F is for Human The Evolution of Feminist Consciousness
Twenty-first century feminism has come to be occupied with promoting a specific, and reified, understanding of womanhood. It is an understanding of womanhood in which 'real women' are forced to choose an adherence to the feminist ‘super-frame’ over and above any understanding of the intricate and complex substance that makes women thinking and feeling individuals.
Women Can’t Be Heroes The Erasure of Female Pain and the Nationalization of Male Suffering
In the beginning, according to a version of the Yoruba creation story, Olodumare, the creator of the universe, sent 17 Oriṣas on a mission to establish the eart... Read More...
The Road to Female Economic Empowerment Thinking about Women-Owned Enterprises in Nigeria
A growing body of evidence points to the recognition that empowering women economically is essential not only for women to realise the full range of their right... Read More...
Efuru Turns 50 6 Writers Visit Select Pages from Flora Nwapa's Debut Novel
On the fiftieth anniversary of Efuru’s first publication, we asked several writers to reflect on their experiences as women, readers and writers. Every week for... Read More...
A Day Without Women The #WomensMarch and Feminism in Trump's America
On January 21st 2017, multitudes of women throughout the U.S. protested the presidency of Donald J. Trump. But what started out as a national march against a pa... Read More...
Rethinking Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Nigeria Why Abortion Laws Need Reform
It is no news that many women around the world today are still being denied key sexual and reproductive rights i.e. their right to enjoy control over and make... Read More...
No Country for Mothers Women's Health in Northern Nigeria
Nigeria alone accounts for 14 per cent of global maternal mortality.