Gender & Feminism
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...
The Politics of Nigerian ‘Pride’
For a long time, queer Nigerians have created spaces that affirm and celebrate queer identities. That these efforts aren’t public marches with international media coverage or corporate sponsorship does not make them any less valid. Read More...
The West Sneezes, LGBTQ+ People in Africa Get a Cold
Problematizing the increasing crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Africa. Read More...
‘It Is Not Feminism If It Is Not Political’
The co-founder and executive director of feminist movement, Feminists in Kenya, discusses convening Kenya’s anti-femicide protests of January 2024 and what needs to happen next. Read More...
