Gender & Feminism
Between Feminism and Islam My Personal Journey from ‘Muslim Feminist’ to ‘Muslimah’
Anyone who truly puts Islam before misogyny would enthusiastically seek to fight for women’s rights in accordance with Islamic principles, without having to identify as a ‘Feminist’. Read More...
Achebe’s Women A Feminist Reading of Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
A feminist reading of Achebe's texts is a restoration of the visions of women not only in Africa's past but also in the continent's present and the future. Read More...
Zata Iya A History of Hausa Feminist Writings
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. Read More...
Women Kings, Invisible Reigns Decolonizing Western Feminist’s Interpretation of African Women’s Experiences
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. Read More...
Abortion and the Right to Privacy The Case for Legalizing Abortion
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. Read More...
“Stop Killing Us!” South Africa's Plague of Masculine Violence
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. Read More...
Lionhearts The Artistic Novelty of Nigerian Women Directors
With directors like Kemi Adetiba and Genevieve Nnaji, women telling women’s stories is the saving grace that Nollywood never knew it needed. Read More...
When We Talk of Freedom Hijabs, Respectability and What it Actually Means to be Free
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. Read More...
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?’ Read More...
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. Read More...