'We Will Not Be Silent': Our Essays on Gender and Feminism from Ideology to Protest

Zata Iya A History of Hausa Feminist Writings

Sada MalumfashiDecember 13, 2019

The feminist champions of Hausa literature have their pens ready, full of fire, energy and imagination, emitting hidden truths through their words, and steadily reinventing the narratives of women in Northern Nigeria.

December 19/January 20Editors Picks: Independence DayInternational Women's Day - HistoryReading Eidvol4-no1

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Women Kings, Invisible Reigns Decolonizing Western Feminist’s Interpretation of African Women’s Experiences

Haddy GassamaNovember 13, 2019

African womanhood as a lived experience and a symbolic ideology has withstood the trials of time. It has survived slavery, colonialism, and continuous flawed portrayals rampant in Western feminist discourse.

International Women's Day - EssaysOctober/November 2019

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Abortion and the Right to Privacy The Case for Legalizing Abortion

Timinepre ColeOctober 28, 2019

Legalizing abortion does not mean that all pregnant women should get one. Rather, it is about the right to privacy, freedom of choice and the preservation of female autonomy.

October/November 2019

“Stop Killing Us!” South Africa's Plague of Masculine Violence

Adenike FapohundaOctober 23, 2019

It is almost impossible to live in South Africa and be unaffected by prejudice; masculine violence in South Africa is a weaponization of this prejudice.

EthiopiaOctober/November 2019South AfricaZimbabwe

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Lionhearts The Artistic Novelty of Nigerian Women Directors

Ololade FaniyiOctober 21, 2019

With directors like Kemi Adetiba and Genevieve Nnaji, women telling women’s stories is the saving grace that Nollywood never knew it needed.

October/November 2019

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When We Talk of Freedom Hijabs, Respectability and What it Actually Means to be Free

Hauwa Shaffii NuhuOctober 14, 2019

Oppression does not exist in a vacuum. It exists to serve the demarcation between the superior and the inferior, no matter how faulty such a demarcation is. And the demarcation there was a piece of clothing, a veil.

October/November 2019Reading Eid

Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer

Lanre ApataAugust 16, 2019

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’

August/September 2019Library

Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power

Joshua Segun-LeanAugust 8, 2019

Feminism’s transformative power is one Nigeria greatly needs; and as Nigeria's feminist movement grows, its adherents show no interests in being respectable.

August/September 2019