Gender & Feminism
The Tyranny of Corporate Women’s Day Campaigns How Corporate Women’s Day Campaigns Are Losing Women
Each year on 08 March, the International Women’s Day celebration is marked by corporate entities all over the world rolling up their sleeves and putting on a performance of allyship, and Nigerian companies are not left out. Read More...
Interim Royals The Marginalization of Women-Regents in Present-Day Yoruba Monarchy
Yoruba culture, particularly traditional leadership, holds that men are superior to women, so they dominate governance at most levels while women are considered unfit to lead in most cases. On these grounds, for women to assume the position of regents, tradition demands they discard their identities. Read More...
Cracking the Glass Ceiling Aisha Binani’s Blueprint for Leadership
As APC’s flagbearer for the 2023 gubernatorial elections in Adamawa State, Aisha Binani stands the chance to become Nigeria's first elected female governor. Read More...
Women, More or Less A Political Solution to Gender-Based Violence
To end gender-based violence start by including more women in politics. Women make up half of Nigeria's population, but they have never held more than 15 per cent of elective offices. There has never even been a female governor or president in Nigeria. Read More...
Afro-Literati The Nardal Sisters and the Négritude Movement
The Nardal sisters’ collective legacies underscore the significant role women played in shaping Black identity across the pan-African world and politics. Read more Read More...
Elizabeth Adekogbe and the Women’s Movement of Nigeria How Elizabeth Adekogbe’s Nationalism Promoted Women
Elizabeth Adekogbe was a nationalist, journalist, teacher, and women’s rights activist, who was the founder and leader of the Women’s Movement of Nigeria. Read more. Read More...
Who Was Lady Oyinkansola Abayomi?
Lady Oyinkansola Abayomi co-founded the Nigerian Women’s Party and helped establish Queen’s College, Yaba, in 1927. Read more. Read More...
The House of Representatives Will Reconsider Three Gender Equality Bills
On Tuesday, 08 March 2022, the Nigerian House of Representatives rescinded its decision on three of the five gender equality bills previously rejected by the higher and lower levels of parliament. Read more. Read More...
Nigerian Women Protest the Senate’s Rejection of Gender Equality Bills
On 02 March 2022, hundreds of women gathered at the National Assembly in Abuja to protest the rejection of five gender equality bills aiming to promote women's inclusion and representation in Nigerian politics. Read more. Read More...
The Right to Love The Fallacy of Homophobia in Postcolonial Africa
‘African homophobia’ is a distinct variant of global homophobia because it is based on unique theoretical foundations that blend prejudices imported from non-African (mostly Western and Islamic) contexts. Read more. Read More...
