Gender & Feminism
The Restorative Genius of Zambian Women
Zambian women are pioneering a new museum culture that is revolutionizing cultural preservation through a fusion of digital technology and indigenous knowledge systems, challenging Western colonial institutions’ claims to being rightful custodians of African heritage. Read More...
Being Pro-Women Is Not Anti-men
Why are boys’ issues often used to derail the conversation when issues affecting girls are raised? Until men recognize that our true battle is against patriarchy and not feminism, we will remain stuck, unable to achieve meaningful progress. Read More...
A Queer Dream of New and Unassimilable Things
As the rest of the world watches the exodus of American users from TikTok to RedNote, it reveals a telling paradox: Western claims to digital freedom depend on portraying contexts like Africa and Asia as uniquely hostile repressive Others, while masking their own suppression of queer expression—a power dynamic that the Global South has long been co-opted to maintain. Read More...
The Semantics of Nigerian Misogyny
Nigeria is harming its women with its disregard for their rights and by promoting incel culture and gender-based hate crimes. Read More...
What the VAPP Act Repeal Means to Women, Activists and Survivors
On 9 July 2024, a bill to repeal and reenact the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act passed its second reading at the National House of Assembly. Nigerian women analyze this Bill through personal and collective histories on what it could mean for the fight against gender-based violence. Read More...
Are You Laughing With Us or at Us?
When I think of the growing trend of social media skits featuring male comedians who dress up as women, I think especially of the dehumanization of women and everyone who lives outside the rigid ends of the gender spectrum. Should a line be drawn on these performances? Or should we be increasingly unsettled? Read More...
Madam Has Interest
Despite their purported mission of advancing women’s interests, in Nigeria, institutionalized structures such as the first lady’s office and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, more often reinforce than challenge patriarchal norms. Read More...
An African Feminist Reading of Wole Soyinka
Feminist scholars have often debated the portrayal of women in Wole Soyinka’s works, who typically navigate patriarchal societies. In Soyinka’s plays, Death and the King’s Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel, however, we find women who operate within the confines of tradition and strategically redefine their roles through acts of defiance. Read More...
A True Portrait of Queer Nigerian Life
Filmmaker and queer rights activist, Olaide Kayode Timileyin, on what it takes to make an authentic Nigerian queer documentary. Read More...
Nigerian Women Reclaim Joy and Freedom in Female-Only Festivals
In the face of societal inequalities and limited public safe spaces, Nigerian women are carving out their own sanctuaries. Read More...
