Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano, has appealed to northerners to change their attitude toward marriage and child bearing, urging them to marry only the number of wives ... Read more »
The victim was beaten allegedly for daring to challenge a soldier who reportedly slapped her brother. Read more »
There is no legal provision for a history of abuse to be considered and women have to rely on defences, such as self-defence, which are not suitable to women who have experienced ... Read more »
"I think the whole problem of gender in the world is about our experiences, it's not about how we wear our hair, or whether we have a vagina or a penis, it's about the way the ... Read more »
Free State Acting Judge President Cagney Musi has called on Danish national Peter Frederiksen to summon his lawyer Howard Woolf who failed to appear during a pre-trial hearing. ... Read more »
Federal and State legislatures have been urged by Rita Maduagwu, the speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, to enact laws against the practice she described as a violation ... Read more »
When Sophie Turner's character Sansa Stark was raped in Game Of Thrones, there was a public uproar. That furore lead to Sophie's decision to become a patron for Women for Women ... Read more »
We have to start change at home and in the earliest days of school, so that there are no places in a child's environment where they learn that girls must be less, have less, and ... Read more »
Former ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane will face charges of hate speech in the Johannesburg High Court over a column he wrote titled "Call me names, but gay is not okay" in 2008. Read more »
So as Africans, where are we learning about sex? And the bigger question is this: Why do we not speak, practically, to our parents about sex, asks Socrates Mbamalu in This Is ... Read more »
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