Here’s a comprehensive account of the most prominent femicide cases in Nigeria in recent years: Uwa, Austa, Ini, Christiannah & more -- the few that made it to social media. Surveys & data suggest many more cases that remain hidden from the public eye. https://t.co/0gpGMRrxMA
Here's some food for thought:
Last year, about 100 women died at childbirth in UK🇬🇧 .
In Norway 🇳🇴, not a single woman died at childbirth last year.
In contrast, 75,000 women died at childbirth last year in Nigeria 🇳🇬.
This. Is. Not. Acceptable.
The beatings worked like mad:
- we cannot challenge authority
- we keep electing leaders that rob us and rub it in our faces
- we maintain a culture of silence that enables the cycle of abuse
- we dissociate and can only process difficult emotions through the lens of religion
Why do you @gtbank deduct charges that don't reflect on my statement of account? And I believe this is not the first time you are doing this. Hidden charges running into thousands of naira every months with no trace. This is misappropriation.
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp
“I hope I've demonstrated that you can face anything, you can face the end of your days, you can face hell with dignity. Fight, girls, and hold your heads high. Billie and Georgia, you are my heart, you are my everything. Goodnight. I love you.
Eric Dane leaves his daughters — and the world — with one final message in Famous Last Words.
I love this tweet because I also struggled with this. Marriage, kids is the script we are handed down & both force a hard wired growth trajectory. If the desire is absent or you aren’t ready yet, what you’ll have to do is sit and design your next chapter from scratch
If I were a man I too would be the loudest advocate for marriage. In fact I’m constantly impressed by how thoroughly women were convinced that an institution offering men comfort and unpaid labor was somehow their prize. Imagine waking up to a life where your domestic needs