The Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Ethiopia have at one point or another restricted internet access, and critics worry this trend could become commonplace across Africa.
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She singles out her assaulter/His appendage calls a lawyer
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Abubakar A. Ibrahim explores love, friendship, loss, sexism and violence in his debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms, a story about a widowed, middle-aged teacher and her young gangster lover. Set in Northern Nigeria, the novel turns on its head preconceived views of what it means to be a Muslim woman living in a conservative society.
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Beginning in the seventies, and set in the backdrop of Nigeria’s turbulent military era, this coming-of-age story trails Enitan’s middle class existence from preteen to adulthood as she questions, resists, conforms and mocks gender norms.
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Written in 1979, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, patriarchy takes a sobering look at societal resistance to women’s shifting roles in pre-independent Nigeria, colonialism’s impact on African culture, and the notion of pregnancy as the ultimate prize and pride of womanhood.
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Comedy is booming in Nigeria, having morphed from a side hustle in the mid-nineties to a serious, full-fledged business. But as with most male-dominated fields, the country's comedy scene has a misogyny problem.
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Life is going according to plan for Efuru until an accident leaves her hospitalised days before her fiftieth birthday. But just as she prepares to submit to fate, Efuru gets a sweet surprise.
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At age 14, Joseph and a group of friends founded a school to provide education to children in Uganda’s Kyangwali Camp. The school has since supported over 1000 pupils through primary school, 700 through secondary and seen some of its graduates enroll in universities around the world.
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