Dear Society, the boys you refused to train are harming the girls you’ve spent years trying to discipline. On Thursday, March 19, Nigeria woke up to disturbing news it would never have imagined. Men from the Ozoro community, in Isoko North LGA in Delta State, came out in numbers and took to the streets to chase, molest, assault, and rape women. According to reports, there is a cultural festival observed in the community during which women are traditionally expected to …
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In Nigeria, it is easier to publicly discredit a woman who speaks about rape than it is to get justice against the man who actually committed it. Rape in Nigeria is drastically underreported. In fact, national …
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Sometimes, I stay up late at night, yearning. I look at him lying peacefully next to me, and I know he deserves better, but I can’t help but think that it should have been you. It …
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