Some of the most insightful conversations have been popping up on social media lately. Like the #BeingFemaleInNigeria discussion, started by Florence Warmate‘s book club.
Some of the most insightful conversations have been popping up on social media lately. Like the #BeingFemaleInNigeria discussion, started by Florence Warmate‘s book club. Group members were discussing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s book, ‘We Should All Be Feminists‘ (adapted from her famous TedxTalk) and started talking about their own experiences.
The club took the conversation to the internet, starting the hashtag #BeingFemaleInNigeria where other women (and a few guys too), contributed to the discussion with interesting perspectives of what it’s like to be a woman in Nigeria.
Below are 10 tweets that made us nod our heads in agreement [and shake our heads in disdain]:
When she gets raped| why did you dress like that? When she gets beaten by her husband? | What did you do to him? #BeingFemaleInNigeria
— JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) June 30, 2015
My grandmother had to sleep with her husband's corpse for three days to prove she didn't kill him #BeingFemaleInNigeria
— frida kahlo. (@LexiLoves__) June 30, 2015
#BeingFemaleInNigeria Nigerian parents don't expect you to date but expect you to be married at 25.
— Chukwuebuka Akara (@ebuka_akara) June 30, 2015
#BeingFemaleInNigeria chances are you wouldn't get certain jobs because you refused to sleep with the Oga at the top.
— Uche Odoh (@KingUcheOdoh) June 30, 2015
A child's failure is the mothers shame but a child's success is the fathers pride #BeingFemaleInNigeria #BeingAFemaleInNigeria
— Adedamola (@damola_ososanya) June 30, 2015
Women who are unhappily married trying to make you feel like a failure for being happily single #beingfemaleinNigeria
— Spectra Speaks (@spectraspeaks) June 30, 2015
#BeingFemaleInNigeria
If you get pregnant before marriage, you're in trouble.
If you don't get pregnant after marriage, you're in trouble.
— Rhodwell Ikekwame (@Rhodymite_) June 30, 2015
#BeingFemaleInNigeria your brothers can go out anytime they like, but as a girl you have to give two weeks prior notice n be home by 4pm. 😩
— Sisi Zolanski (@Isab33lla) June 30, 2015
#beingfemaleinnigeria is tipping the restaurant worker with YOUR money from YOUR bag but the worker thanking your male companion instead.
— u.u (@KhaleesiNU) June 30, 2015
#BeingfemaleinNigeria you're 30 years old? And you wanna leave your boyfriend for cheating? Ordinary cheating? I'm sorry for you. Wa le le.
— Kehinde Diggs (@kooloosaw) June 30, 2015
Check out more of the conversation, here.
