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ArticlesThere are no toilets in this camp. Noone is pooing. I’ve gone once since I’ve been here and I had to sneak out of camp to a field across the road and sit on a bucket I’d spread a large nylon bag over.
Immediately my fears switched from “I’m going to be raped and murdered by these horrible people” to “I’m going to get shot by the god damn police.”
Nigerian men are not going to stop marrying you if you openly admit to being a feminist. The only way they can continue benefiting from the atmosphere of fear surrounding the feminism of Nigerian women in Nigeria is if Nigerian women continue to trade away some of their rights in exchange for acceptance in our patriarchal society.
Now that I think about it. Practically everyone in Nigeria is having sex for money. I don’t know about other countries, but from what I’ve seen of relationships in America from different ethnicities, while there’s an expectation of exchanging gifts and other such things, it is nowhere near as advanced and expensive as it is in Nigeria.
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Hello, I know this post is over ten years old, but I just read it and your rant post and I am awed. I completely […]
Growing up in my village school and seen how we were beaten for speaking igbo language to speck the igbo at old age
Yes it’s my dialect, but there is a very practical reason why I use it. Onicha Igbo is the most widely understood dialect due to historical
Is the Onicha Anambra dialect your dialect? If so that seems... a bit biased.
[…] I first learned to write Igbo in school, I have been infuriated with Samuel Ajayi Crowther,” she blogged in 2009. “The Roman system of writing was