By Glory Edozien Now if you are anywhere within your mid twenties to late thirties you must be aware of the wedding mania that continues to sweep over our country. It usually takes about 30 minutes for the newly engaged bride-to-be to change her status from ‘in a relationship’ to engaged on facebook, complete with a profile picture of her…
‘See as you dey do like woman’! ‘Woman driver’! ‘Why you dey cry like woman’……Somehow society has managed to insinuate that being a ‘girl’ is insulting. We reconstructed the twerm girl to mean fluffy, weak and ditzy. But girls aren’t born that way. As children we see the world as open, beautiful and filled with possibilities. We run, play, jump….we…
It is no secret that Blessing Okagbare did millions of Nigerians and indeed Africans proud at the recently completed 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow. Blessing won gold at both 100 and 200 meter races and set the games record time of 10.85sec for the 100meter race. The first African woman to achieve such a feat. On her successful performance…
A good friend of mine once told me ‘every relationship must not end in marriage’. At first I didn’t understand what he meant. Surely, when you reach your mid-twenties the goal of most relationships is marriage. But now, I clearly see what he was talking about. I think ‘some’ of us are so fixated on the expected end result we…
By Sarah Cottrell Today [my] child sat in my lap and told me stories about all of his favorite things. He played with my hair. He sang me a song. He gave me hugs and he kissed my forehead. This was a remarkably affectionate occasion for my son who is currently going through a Mom-Is-Pure-Evil phase. I sat there in…
By Amber Larson My body, my face, my features will never be repeated. How I look is not going to mimic the girl next to me in the gym. My body shape will not be the same as another female that I may be slightly jealous of because she’s thinner than me. My ass is going to be bigger and there…
Dear all, My name is Glory Obiajulu Edozien and I am NOT a nag. I am just a woman who happens to know what she wants and wants what she knows. When I was growing up, I wondered why my mother shouted so much. I would watch her as she entered the house from a long day at work as…
We LOVE receiving feedback from our readers! Inspire Series reader Nora Odiba-Igonoh read our co-inspirator Wana Udobang’s letter to her younger self which we published and responded to our call for others to do same. She sent us this wonderful letter for younger Nora which I am sure we will not only enjoy reading but learn from too. Dear Nora, Let…
For eons men have felt like they ruled the world. They cough and their mothers halt mid-step, they say jump and their wives ask “how high”? It is amazing sometimes to watch a proud man as he walks into a room. His wide but slow and steady strides signify his implicit dominance, his arms arched inwards to suggest the contour…
Women. Our issues are many sha! Why do women seem to be the ones giving other women a hard time? Whatever happened to female commiradry, supporting your sister and all of that? I remember in university days (and even secondary school), it was so easy to call another girl and “ashewo”, which is loosely translated to mean slut or prostitute.…
