“Mom, are you saying that you didn’t identify Aba’s body yourself?” Rami asked her mother. There were a few seconds of silence, and then she responded, “We agreed not to tell anyone. They did it for me. They said her body was more than half burnt and mostly unrecognisable. They initially identified her from her bag at the scene, which contained her ID. And the parts of her clothing that weren’t fully burnt matched the descriptions we sent out on …
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Thirty minutes later, Rami was on her way back home. Nobody had been able to tell her anything new. The only intriguing piece of information was the one Seth had given her. Before she fell asleep …
Pray tell, when you look at other women, do you see a reflection of yourself in them, or do you feel like you are someone else entirely? The time is 1:32am and I am at the …
“Fuckkkkkkkkkkk,” Malik groaned as he came on her stomach. He was still on top of her, with his hands planted firmly on either side of her body. His chest heaved as he tried to catch his …
Rami spent most of Sunday confused and anxious. She couldn’t talk to anyone about this because she didn’t know who to trust. Besides, everyone would think that she was crazy. Could she speak to the police? …
Last year while working on a documentary film project in Accra, I met a very interesting middle-aged woman named Naa who I discovered is a Priestess and the leader of a group of middle-aged queer Ghanaian …
Written by Oladoyin Alana Precious* met Wale* on an evening train to Lagos. The conversation that ensued between the two of them was enough. She was convinced that Wale* was going to be the love of …
Written by Precious Nwosu “When someone repeatedly feels dismissed or unheard in medical settings, it doesn’t just stay about that one appointment. It becomes a pattern that the nervous system starts to recognise,” says Amari Leaphart, …
Written by Vivian Oluchi The orgasm gap, also known as the pleasure gap, can be defined, according to Wikipedia, as the difference in sexual satisfaction between heterosexual men and women. Studies have found that the orgasm …
Written by Yaa Owusua I think, as a collective and as women, we can all agree that men in this era are… different. With the rise of incel culture, casual misogyny (although that never really went …
If you have ever wondered how deeply patriarchy has influenced our daily lives as women, here is one example you might not immediately think of: the infantilisation of women. There is a way society positions men …