In this latest No Time For Fear column, I want to share a Reuters article that I came across recently. Nigeria is having its general election in 2019; this alone is cause for worry. Female politicians and civil society leaders have said that women are not likely to...
Last month, Boko Haram released more than 80 of the Chibok girls kidnapped by the group in 2014. The Nigerian government negotiated the girls’ freedom in exchange for five Boko Haram leaders. The girls need to be reintegrated back into society and will face many...
Yemaja, also known as Yemoja, depending on the traditions of the local area, is the deity of the Yoruban people found in Nigeria, Benin and Togo. The Yoruba people are one of the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria and as of the beginning of the 21st century, were...
In so many ancient civilisations across the globe, love is in the guardianship of a particular deity; usually, although not always, this is a goddess. You might be familiar with Venus and Aphrodite, goddesses of love to the Romans and Greeks. In Western Africa, the...
In a previous post, I discussed the kidnap of 218 girls from their school in Nigeria in 2014. Recently, some good news broke in relation to the girls with the two teenagers being rescued. On Tuesday the 18th of May news broke of the rescue of...
