Written by Eniiyi When Ifeoma opened her mouth to tell him to stop, nothing came out. They had been having sex for a few minutes when his hands closed around her neck, and at first she did not think much of it because she had seen choking before in films and pornography. But when his grip tightened, she realised she was struggling to breathe and tried to tell him to stop, only to find that she could not get the …
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On the 9th of September, Elizabeth ‘Tsontso’ Moselakgomo, a 38-year-old mother and a runner, left her home in Kempton Park for her usual afternoon run. When she did not come back home, her daughter alerted the …
On January 24, 2023, someone placed a distressing call from a home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The caller was Patrick Clancy, and he had just returned home to find his three young children unconscious in the basement. …
“Shut up” is one of the blunt ways to silence someone when you don’t want them to speak anymore. “Forgive and forget” is another way, except it is done subtly, in a more repackaged, refurbished, peaceful, …
Written by Ifeoluwa Suleiman My mother had a dream that I would get pregnant by a man far older than me. She never told me about the dream. She just started treating me like it had …
It is 2026, yet women’s bodies are still governed by everyone except the women themselves. How long will women continue to be at the receiving end of men’s fight for control? In 2015, The Gambia amended …
In many African homes, when a parent is about to leave the house, they call the eldest child, no matter how young, to look after their younger siblings and take charge. “You are now the second …
CNN recently exposed a website that hosted over 20,000 videos of women who had been drugged and filmed by their partners while they were unconscious. The site had recorded around 62 million visits. Imagine millions of …
It’s World Book Day! This day is a global initiative promoting reading for pleasure, author engagement, and literacy. Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women is all about pleasure and storytelling, but we also know that …
Women deal with misogyny every day. Regardless of your age, life status, or geographical location, there is always a man—or sometimes, unfortunately, a woman with internalised misogyny—who will try to treat you with less respect because …
One area of global health policy that is most talked about and yet least understood is reproductive healthcare. Most people know it is important, but only a few understand why it matters, who influences it, or …