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Sex, Religion and Hair Weaves
Tweet Sex Havelock Ellis, one of the most successful sexologists of the 20th century believed that sexual intercourse between men and women was based on animal courtship which he defined as “the...
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The real reason African patriarchs have a problem with African feminism
TweetUpon hearing the term African feminist, many African men and women will say, we as Africans don’t need feminism, we just need to return to our roots to see that there was harmony between the...
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Bad leadership is NOT the problem in Africa
Tweet Last week, Joyce Banda became the second female head of state in Africa. This kind of development is significant for the continent. Not only is Banda female, which accounts for progress in more...
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Some thoughts on Ashley Judd’s definition of patriarchy
TweetIn the unlikely case that you missed actress Ashley Judd’s smashing op-ed piece on media’s misogynist practices, then start by reading it here. It’s truly a landmark piece in its bringing to the...
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Going to see “Belong” by Bola Agbaje
Tweet Belong by Bola Agbaje Supporters keh. Forget this country. How many year have you lived here?… Your English is better than the Queen’s and they still call you… I’m looking forward to my upcoming...
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Beyonce, skin colour and carrots
Tweet Beyonce was crowned most beautiful woman in the world by People Magazine this week and that resurfaced the skin colour topic with many debating whether the light skinned Beyonce is an accurate...
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Huffington Post: Hair-Raising Conversations
TweetFollowing another week of hair-related scandals in entertainment and sports, my latest HuffPo article argues that there is more to the black hair conversation than shallowness or self loathing and...
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Discovering African feminism
Tweet‘Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface‘ – Audre Lorde As a young girl I could not get my head round the society I lived in, where Nigerian men seemed to have many more privileges than...
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7 key issues in African feminist thought
Tweet Firstly, it is important to say that when it comes to theory, it’s more accurate to speak of African feminisms than of one almighty African feminism. Not all African feminists agree with each...
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On Bitch Bad by Lupe Fiasco
Tweet Lupe Fiasco has just released the video for the ‘Bitch Bad’ track off the ‘Food & Liquor 2 ‘ album. The video (embedded below) examines the impact of the word ‘bitch’ in hip hop and how it...
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Huffington Post: Meditate Your Way Through Negative Articles About Black Women
Tweetoprah.com I submitted the below post to the Huffington Post editors before the racist and sexist cover image of Michelle Obama as a nude slave appeared in one of Spain’s biggest newspapers, El...
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Who is an African woman?
TweetWhen people ask me what I do, and I respond that I’m a blogger, and that I blog about topics that primarily concern African women, quite often they proceed to either tell me about an humanitarian...
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Barack Obama, villain or hero?
Tweet When it comes to places, the affection that I have for my hometown, Lagos, is matched only by a sort of nostalgia that I harbour towards Tampere, the Finnish city I’m from, which shapes many of...
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Can women have it all? On marriage, motherhood and work
Tweet One of the most popular articles in 2012 was “Why women still can’t have it all“, by Anne-Marie Slaughter in The Atlantic. It received the most facebook likes any Atlantic article has ever...
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International Women’s Month event for your diary: FRIDA – Female Revolution...
Tweet “I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.” ― Frida Kahlo To celebrate the forthcoming International Women’s Month 2013, join us...
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Valentine’s Day Give-Away – My free poetry e-book
Tweet I don’t consider myself a poet but that’s an odd thing to announce given that I am next going to offer you to download cache, my poetry book. And for free too in the spirit of Valentine’s day...
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Africa is a great country – new photography exhibition in Sweden
Tweet Vila Olimpica, Maputo, Mozambique. From Africa is a Great Country. Jens Assur, 2012. On April 11th, I’m in Stockholm as one of four keynote speakers at the launch of Africa is a Great Country, a...
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Can Africans have multiple subcultures? A response to “Exorcising...
TweetOn 24 June 2011, over 5,000 people showed up for an event at the V&A Museum in London titled “Friday Late: Afropolitans”. Now, packing the world famous museum is usually the function of...
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What role can women play in helping to shape their built environment?
Tweet This post is an extract from a Q&A by sixty7 Architecture Road, a Canadian site devoted to the built environment, which asked four individuals, from various professional backgrounds, and...
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Second class citizen: African women and nationalism
TweetWhen I think of nationalism, I think of Virginia Woolf’s words – “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” I too find that there is...
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