Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer
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?’
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Gender & Feminism
Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power
Feminism’s transformative power is one Nigeria greatly needs; and as Nigeria's feminist movement grows, its adherents show no interests in being respectable.
Sexuality in the Twenty-first Century Looking through Nigerian Lenses
In Nigeria, sexuality rarely emerges in the realm of public debate or analysis, leaving the topic stuck in the periphery of historical discussions.
The Power of Social Media Nigeria's Changing Feminist Movement
Like everywhere else, feminists in Nigeria are increasingly relying on social media to organize movements, protest, inform and reform society.
From Glamour Girls to Nolly Babes Nollywood Nostalgia and the Modern Nigerian Woman
Social media feeds featuring compelling visuals of old Nollywood are increasingly becoming sources of inspiration for female artists in Nigeria.
What is Feminism? Feminism, by the Book
As early as 1808, Francois Marie Charles Fourier, a strange and brilliant utopian socialist and philosopher, preached that the development of any civilization d... Read More...
Reading Feminism What to Read on Feminism
What better time than now to start to engage—or re-engage—with feminism? Here's what to read on the movement.
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...
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...