There lies a hope that more Nigerians, having observed women at the fore of the EndSARS protests against police brutality, will begin to appreciate their leadership capabilities.
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Following a spate of rape cases exacerbated by the Covid-19 lockdown, women are demanding the Nigerian government declare a state of emergency on gender-based violence.
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Listed by ELLE Magazine as one of “12 women changing the world”, Minna Salami, a Nigerian-Finnish author, blogger and commentator, discusses the importance of feminist civil society groups and why she’s impatient with the idea of empowering women simply for economic reasons.
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Written in 1979, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, patriarchy takes a sobering look at societal resistance to women’s shifting roles in pre-independent Nigeria, colonialism’s impact on African culture, and the notion of pregnancy as the ultimate prize and pride of womanhood.
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Comedy is booming in Nigeria, having morphed from a side hustle in the mid-nineties to a serious, full-fledged business. But as with most male-dominated fields, the country's comedy scene has a misogyny problem.
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