Category: Life

One of the major failings of any form of activism is the refusal of those at the helm to realise that their struggle is not the sole or ultimate struggle on earth.

After confronting oppressive systems and people, after a probable internal struggle and crossing all the barriers that make women unwilling to speak up, what happens?

Women have been silenced for so long that many of us automatically opt for conflict avoidance even when we are well within our right to complain, especially when the complaint is against a man.

The emphasis placed on the necessity of marriage for women is packaged as well-meaning even when the people who push them to marry know the institution is flawed.

Toufah Jallow said no. She said no to the most powerful man in the Gambia and the result of that is something we’ve come to know too well.

The assignment of some activities to certain genders starts early. Female children are adorned in all pink everything and male children in blue.