Category: Life
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Aba Women Riots: Women At The Frontline of Social Change
On 18 November 1929, the Aba Women riot/rebellion began, the movement among Nigeria’s Aba women was notably the first major challenge to British authority in Nigeria and West Africa during the colonial period.
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Mo Abudu’s ‘Fifty’ Looks, Sounds, and Feels Feminist, But How Feminist is it?
Fifty is a unique film that possesses the duality of performative feminism and actual feminism within it.
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Do Women benefit from casual relationships?
Despite the change in traditional gender roles and how partnerships are now seen, women experience more negative emotions after the end of a causal connection than men do.
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Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive: On Sexual Trauma & True Healing
The cracks begin to form when the director of a true crime documentary persuades her to tell her own side of the story concerning an infamous, extremely school shooting that took place years ago at her prestigious preppy high school.
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Document Women Premieres Short Film at Sokoto Book and Arts Festival
This series follows the lives of four women in Nigeria’s northern “Arewa” community who excel in the non-traditional male-dominated sports industry.
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Is Okafor’s law real or is it another sexist myth?
Okafor’s Law gives men a sense of entitlement to women’s bodies. The theory implies that once a man has had sex with a woman and it was good. He somewhat has a right to her body.
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In “The One for Sarah”, Community plays a part in recovering from abuse
The One For Sarah explores the perils of finding love while recovering from abuse, the need to affirm one’s self and to honestly believe those affirmations and the importance of good people to help you through the process.
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Online Gender-Based Violence: Promoting Digital Rights For Women in Nigeria
The overlap of online and offline behaviour is inevitable in the digital age. The internet ensures and opens pathways to novel forms of abuse, including cyberstalking,
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For Nigerian Single Mothers, Society is not so Forgiving
Many single mothers shoulder multiple burdens:at the same time that they assume all or most of the responsibility for their children, they frequently live in poverty while still holding down a job.
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Negative Reactions Trail Yomi Black’s “Toxic Feminism” Film
Harmful stereotypical depictions, the trivialisation of rape and domestic violence, and stories that denigrate women and push moralistic misogynist views have come to be associated with Nollywood.