a blog by Angel Nduka-Nwosu
Women were not created with an expiry date in mind. We are like fine wine. We only get better with time.
My people, since when in the history of humankind has boiling rice and stirring soups/stews ever kept a marriage not just together, but truly happy?
upon your death as a woman, your obituary won’t read, “Here lies the wonderful virgin”. Your eulogy would rather be all the things you did to impact the world not your bedroom.
First of all I’m going to call you by your full name. Angel Chinenyenwa Nduka-Nwosu. If you like frown up and down, darling your names are beautiful. I know you sometimes think that Angel is too babyish and that Chinenyenwa is too “Igbotic”(Whatever that means) but in the nearest future you would find yourself returning…
…However even as young as I was and even as I did not know the word “feminist”, I really did not like the portrayal of women seen in most books written by male writers in the African Writers Series…
I like to think of myself as an ageless person- Interview with Abiola Adebiyi(Photographer/Visual Artist/Founder of ElevateNG Foundation)
It is ridiculous that while I get shamed for having body hair, the average Nigerian teenage boy is equally shamed and called a “pussy” if he does not have a connecting beard.
“I believe there is a level of bias as regards gender even in the church”- Interview with Teen Author and Poet Oyinda Depo-Oyedokun
“Reading Sula for me was like listening to a combination of spoken word poetry and jazz music.”
“Everything is not fine
Because women are still viewed as temporary members of their households”
