Should gentleness be all you are, Let no harsh lesson guide your stride. And if your spirit shines afar, Let no faint whisper turn your tide. May imperfections never seal the gate To the grand self you’re destined to create. You are perfect. Irene.
It is beyond disappointing that in 2025, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) — an institution once known for its revolutionary thinkers, aluta-ism, and progressive academic environment — is even considering implementing a dress code policy that belongs in the Stone Age. A list has been circulating online, showing alleged sanctions for students who wear dreadlocks,
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What I’m about to write is most likely going to make you mad almost to the point of wanting to unalive me. That crazed blind anger you feel towards people you don’t even know as if they have hurt you or other people for cheating, when indeed they have NOT. The anger has
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The effervescence of our frustration might be expressed through our aggression. Expression, as expected, doesn’t have to be aggressive but sometimes some of us express through our silence and inaction. The hibernation of our views, thoughts and actions might also be an expression of whatever external influences we find ourselves under. Reality, as we all
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Life, whether we like it or not, is just a long chain of decisions. Not always big dramatic ones either, sometimes it’s just what you decide to do when your alarm goes off, who you reply to when you’re half-asleep, or whether you scroll for another 30 minutes instead of doing that one thing that’s
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Y’all, they’ve started praying for God to bless me so I can have my own kid(s)! 😂🤲🏽 “Kai, and this aunty is really nice o, I sincerely hope she has her own kids soon. She’s so sweet.” Yesterday, this woman (I like her too, she’s a good person) in all sincerity prayed for
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Pre-script: Since I got back to writing about feminism again, I have really learnt how to have hard conversations. It sometimes feel like walking on eggshells, but I think as humans we have to learn to walk on eggshells and break those figurative eggshells to be better humans and to get out of our artificial
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Your next five must-reads for revolutionizing how you think, feel, and organize. 1) Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown We have all had that moment where we are in a conversation with some people and our chat with them is blowing up with ideas. The interruption of one idea by another can
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When we hear the word consent, most people immediately think of sexual relationships. While it’s necessary to talk about consent in that regard, we often look past the fact that consent goes far beyond the bedroom. In reality, consent is deeply political. It is a valuable tool in how our societies function—or fail. In Nigeria
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As a male feminist, I recently read a question that says that “How are working-class men part of patriarchy when they don’t hold institutional power?” with a mixed emotions of warmth and weariness. Warmth, because it is a question I have always hoped to find a final answer to. Weariness, because I always feared the
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