The point needs to made to a greater number of misguided young women on social media who refer to themselves as "feminists" that, feminism did not start today. They also need to understand with their myopic world view and parochial sense of history that feminism is not a war against the menfolk or against African norms and traditions as many of them now erroneously believe. For the records and for the benefit of these largely ignorant bibliophobic pseudo-feminists, throughout most of Western history, even when women had started holding important positions in public life in Africa, European and American women…

Straddling the last day in August and the first in September 2021, a two-day national dialogue on girls was held at the Sheraton Abuja Hotel. The dialogue was jointly organised by the Ethiopia-based African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) and their Nigerian counterparts, namely, Africawide Movement for Children (AMC) and Women Arise for Change Initiative (aka Women Arise). Joe Okei-Odumakin of Women Arise and Joan Nyanyuki, Executive Director, ACPF were host and co-host respectively. Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, declared the dialogue open. Osinbajo’s fluidity as he made his speech “lai wo’we” (without a prepared speech)…