Nigeria's World of Male Terror: Logics of Sexual Violence

Violence against women carries with it the warning that it can happen again; that it is inevitable; that the power to harm still resides where it originated, with the oppressor class—men. The most enduring, pervasive and systemic force of terror in Nigeria is male terror. It is, also, for the same reasons, the most unchallenged, normalized and sanctified. If the scale and severity of violence against women were perpetrated against a different group, such violence would be considered genocid

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