A few days before the New York rapper Cardi B arrived with much fanfare in Lagos, Nigerian-American rapper Jidenna had shared a video of himself crossing the street in the major urban thoroughfare Admiralty Way in the Lekki neighborhood of Lagos, referring to it as a “concrete jungle.”
On Sunday, June 30, Nigerian women organized a protest against sexual violence in the church following recent allegations by the wife of a popular singer that the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) general overseer pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo raped her when she was 17 years old.
We should probably get the obvious points out of the way.
The failure of the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill to get past the second reading in the Nigerian senate this week got me thinking about women’s rights activism, the formidable challenges ahead, and how we might begin to overcome them. There has rightly been much outrage in Nigeria and in the international community that the bill, proposed by one of the country’s few female senators, Abiodun Olujimi, was rejected on cultural and religious reasons.
