Breast ironing, female genital mutilation, sexual violence, arranged marriage among others are what a girl child goes through in some communities. Yes I vow to the blueness of my ink to stop madam cash from trading our daughters for jewelleries our mothers of tomorrow Yes I vow to the scars on my heart to tarnish […]
Girl Child Marriage
The palm wine tappers daughter Growing small tangerines attracted you Abandoning the thighs of a ready-to-be mother You tore into soul of an adolescent You bought a bride with a price And inserted your knife of greed into her emotions Sucking the milky drops from her eyes Is this marriage of slave trade? A penny […]
NO TO GENDER DISCRIMINATION
Out of the Ashes we rise For the sun that was out that evening The moon that shone that night For it came out in all its might And they flooded the town with light As all the vestiges left me of the fight The fight where I was supposed to be the Knight but […]
Girls Smash Stereotypes
My bangles cast with mud Vegetables adorn my head Forever stuck in this hell-hole Ever heated kitchen -stead My gender is my sentence My home, my prison Condemned to serve the man I’m forced to be content with second place Though, for enlightenment, I’ve fought Wielded my flag against my mistreatment The system fights right […]
Woman Of Worth-ADEWUYI ROSELINE ADEBIMPE
I am humane, doughty, dexterous and tenacious. I am a power house of stunning virtues with a special puissance in honing excellence. The Woman Of Worth Network #Iamawomanofworth# #Wordsofaffirmation# #Powerwoman#
Excism
Excism To realise self is to command To command self is to live. What does a fruit, unripe, detached from its source sing? Slimy lamentations of unattainment. Devouring birds may not get a look to see her, ripen and stomach to their fill her delicacy. I mean, desire for debauchery averted. Good riddance, yes? There […]
Dilemma Of A Girl
What if What if, there were no memories to write, of a girl full of scars, her eyes painted with agonies, Of haunted days. I thought, Scars were tales of a man , Who journeyed the sea, To fight for freedom for his children, Only to return and meet demons. No, scars are for women, […]
Female Genital Circumcision
It’s estimated that between 114 million women around the world experience female genital circumcision. The ritual is life-threatening, makes child bearing extremely painful and there are traumatic experiences attached to it. The root of this is based on culture. Is it then a crime to be born a female?, must I wallow in limitations because […]
ELEGANCE OF WOMANHOOD-ADEWUYI ROSELINE ADEBIMPE
I am a woman and I am blessed. Now, some of you may have nurtured the thought and mentality that my being a woman makes me inferior to men, but is that really true? See, men and women are created equally but differently. We appear in two different forms but we have and carry the […]
The Future of women in Technology
More than ever in human history, life today has been made very convenient, courtesy of technology we use in our everyday living. Although little has been done so far to celebrate the brains behind most of these intentions especially after their death, the fact that many of those inventors are still read and discussed in […]