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WHAT EXACTLY IS OAU TURNING INTO?

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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THE EXPRESSION OF MUTUAL AID THROUGH FEMINISM AND HUMANISM

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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CONSENT ISN’T JUST ABOUT SEX – IT IS POLITICAL

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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AM I A PART OF THE PATRIARCHY? (1)

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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USING ADVOCACY TO DEFEND GIRLS’ RIGHTS IN SCHOOLS

What happens when the school girl finds her voice, particularly in an environment that says: It doesn’t matter what you studied. You’re a girl? Shout fire! Instead of rape!   As a law student, I found my voice when I confronted the discrimination permeating societal values often backed by customary laws. It was in that

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BATS 🦇

Still as death, lying under trees, Inverted, where I find my ease. Flit-flutter, my pinions beat swift and low, Flying ’round the luminous sky, Time now for a slumberous sigh. Lanky, a vampiric form I seem, Release my hand and hear my dream.   Flapping wild above the sky, Not as hard as rocks on

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DEMOCRAZY

..Being silent about myself Because Hope is an irony And the future is a metaphor compared to ephemerality. I am paradox, a very futile euphemism called a special one, a special foreshadowing. My name is praised with Euphony but my realization is cacophony. Thought my life would rhyme like Alliteration, or assonance but it’s parataxis;

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THE MARKED

A child, they said, was born so free,   Yet freedom’s touch he’d never see.   No tears to shed, already marked,   A name bestowed, a life embarked.   An identity he cannot claim,   A silent voice, a hidden flame.   If only names were all they chose,   But paths and dreams, they too impose.   A future

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