Category: Counter Culture Blog
Dear Sound Sultan, a personal preference for plus-size women doesn’t make you progressive
Nigerians body shame. It is as much a fact about our country as our love for jollof and our tragic ...
Recent data on sexual assault in Kaduna is a warning that gendered violence is a national problem
As a Nigerian who is concerned about the rights of women and children, you never catch a break. In October ...
#SexForGrades is a reminder that nothing will stop Nigeria’s #MeToo movement
Yesterday, Nigerian journalist Kiki Mordi, in partnership with Premium Times and the BBC released an investigative documentary about the exploitation, ...
Another critic of Governor Ganduje has been arrested for dissent
Nazir Ahmed, otherwise known by his stage name Sarkin Waka was arrested by the Kano State Police command on the ...
An alleged serial killer has killed 9 women in Port Harcourt & the Nigerian police is blaming the victims
The first time I heard about the serial killings in Port Harcourt, it wasn’t from the Nigerian police. There was ...
Don’t be deceived by the recent support for Bobrisky, TERFs are still a big problem
Everyone expected it, but we were all still genuinely surprised when it happened. For nearly a year, Idris ‘Bobrisky’ Okuneye, ...
Sex tourism is thriving in the Gambia, but is it wrong if it is consensual?
West Africa has sex tourism situation. I would ordinarily call it a ‘problem’ but I believe the situation requires more ...
Everyone dies in the end, even Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe, former president of Zimbabwe (for 30 plus years) is dead. No one is really surprised by this, in ...
Sanctions not retaliations are how we need to respond to SA’s xenophobia
For nearly a week before the 1st of September, news filtered in from South Africa that the country’s black male ...
With journalists being arrested for treason, Nigeria dips further into a dictatorship
Just last week, we were publicly decrying the decision of the federal government to forcefully arrest AAC presidential candidate Omoyele ...
Flooding: Nigeria is on the verge of yet another nationwide disaster
As a Nigerian living in Nigeria, its hard not to feel like we all suffer from collective amnesia. A collective ...
One year later the Nigerian police still has no charges for the #Egbeda57
On the 26th of August 2016, Nigerians woke up to news that 57 young men attending a birthday party in ...
Intersex people are now a formally recognized gender in Kenya
As part of Kenya’s plans to streamline its government process, the country began a census last weekend to align global ...
Sexual harassment in markets is an issue women are tackling across Africa
One of the ways rape culture perpetuates itself is through sexual harassment. Sexual harassment which includes language that demeans women ...
Davido, a name you’d never never expect to show up on a list beside The Assemblies of God
In the list of things that are fairly obvious but you would have never think to predict, is Davido’s music ...
As of today, Nigeria is finally polio free
It has taken Nigeria a long, long time, but finally, we are Polio free. It has taken 30 years of ...
Ekiti State is serious about their sex offenders list
Last week, the internet went wild when the Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi posted via his twitter, a photograph of ...
Could public shaming be the only way we get Nigerian politicians to behave?
There is an anecdote that says Nigerians do not have shame. I don’t think that’s true, at least, not for ...
Mark Ofua’s animal shelter is a reminder of the ecological cost of our lifestyles
An animal shelter in Nigeria seems a bit of a stretch, but not for Mark Ofua. For Nigerians, animals rank ...
Dada is revolutionizing medicine in Nigeria, one payment at a time
The Federal Medical Center Ebute Metta might not have been in the news over the last few months but it ...
Nigeria’s fuel subsidies are still costing us more than we think
When was the last time you thought about fuel? Have you thought about how much it costs for a litre, ...
At long last, leader of IMN, El-Zakzaky leaves for India for treatment
It has taken nearly four years of negotiations, protests, false starts and blatant defiance of the rule of law, but ...
Nepotism in the Nigerian army cost the policemen killed last week their lives
If you follow politics in Nigeria, then the events of last weekend must have caused you some concern. The Nigerian ...
A kidnap kingpin is in the wind and 3 police officers are dead; This is Buhari’s Nigeria
In a turn of events that will confound even the most open minded of political commentators, the Nigerian Police Force, ...
It’s 2019, and Kenya’s National Assembly wants to punish a legislator for breastfeeding
It is hard not to feel like no matter the kind of progress we achieve as a continent, we will ...
It’s four years late, but Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky is finally getting his day in court
Few people could have anticipated that a routine trek for a group of Shi’ite Muslims and their leader Sheik Ibrahim ...
Buhari moves one step closer to undermining our democracy with Omoyele Sowore’s arrest
This morning, former political candidate Oby Ezekwesili joined her voice to the chorus publicly denouncing the federal government’s secret arrest ...
Hallelujah, Tinder is finally looking out for the gays
Dating app Tinder has really caught on in Nigeria. It has gone from this dodgy app expatriates use to solicit ...
Statement of the UNODC Executive Director for the International Day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking
Drug abuse is a complex problem at the intersection of public health, safety and social issues. It takes a heavy ...
BREAKING: Botswana decriminalises homosexuality in landmark ruling
Botswana’s High Court has ruled to decriminalise homosexuality on Tuesday, in a landmark case being watched across Africa after Kenya ...