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28 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
*5 minutes into kidnapping*

"Driver, why your head dey like sherry mango?"
*5 minutes into kidnapping*
"Driver, biko play Chioma Jesus for me".
*5 minutes into kidnapping*

"Driver, if you no want make thunder fire you, better drop me for next bus stop".
*5 minutes into kidnapping*

"Driver, I wan piss".
*5 minutes into kidnapping*

"Driver, your mama na ashawo".

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Ijeoma Ogwuegbu*NG*🏳️‍🌈🌈 Profile picture
28 Jan
TW: Death.
Makinde Street. Ajibulu Street. Oludegun Avenue.
Street names. Seemingly random, from the Mafoluku community, Lagos. Connected by one terrible truth; On 27th January, 2002, more than 2000 children from this neighbourhood drowned in one night. ImageImage
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Ijeoma Ogwuegbu*NG*🏳️‍🌈🌈 Profile picture
25 Jan
Thread of Pregnancy/Childbirth/post-partum symptoms and conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth for reference.

I'll start with a few. Please add as many as you can.

My last child is 3. My hair only recently started growing properly. I lost so much hair I had to cut it.
After delivery, you sometimes have this awful discharge that comes out of your vagina. Its sticky and stinks. I believe its your body expelling at the rest of the things that helped you carry and birth your child.

It can go on for weeks.
During my 2nd daughter's pregnancy, I lost hearing in one ear. It only came back months after I had her.
For some women it never comes back.
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18 Jan
Here's one thing I told myself immediately I knew for sure I was getting separated - I'm absolutely not raising these kids alone.

I know one would think that was a given, but we are talking about Nigeria here, where even the systems set up to protect families...
...are very easily subverted by men with power.

The first thing I needed to wrestle with and overcome, was the idea that as their mother, I'm the only one with the magic wand for raising my kids. No bueno.

We've seen it happen a million times over. -
A woman kills herself raising her children all on her own, then sometime in the future Daddy returns, and is embraced with open arms. Yes your kids 'might' love you more, but you're the one with the broken body and mind, after carrying a load that should have been split.
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14 Dec 20
During the #EndSARS protests, all the people did was ask the police to stop killing us.

@segalink labelled it an insurrection. The govt echoed his words.

Now he is calling it a regime change.

He continues to put a target on innocent Nigerians. And we know they hear him.
This man is actively seeking harm for innocent Nigerians, for other reason than they asked that the govt be sincere in its dealings with them.

He let his ego run amok because he felt that his work wasn't centred in the protest.

He doesn't care how many people his words kill.
We have seen the govt target those behind the #EndSARS protests. Accounts blocked, accused of terrorism.

Some protesters are still behind bars, with no hope of being released.

Yet this man continues with the same language that he had used to incite violence against #EndSARS
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14 Dec 20
Nigerian feminists, know that you're doing something right. These people wouldn't be investing so much time and energy into discrediting you if you had no impact.

Keep doing you. Dem boiz is scared.
No. Nigerian feminists are not 'misandrists'. Words have meanings.

There is nothing wrong with Nigerian feminism.

We know what feminism is about. We have to live in one of the most misogynist countries in the world.

Nigerian feminists are fighting for women everywhere.
That women who want to stand up for themselves need to clarify that "I'm not a feminist but..." tells you they've been successful in tainting it.

Of course the patriarchy will push back. You're demanding a system that benefits some people be dismantled. Of cos they hate it.
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13 Dec 20
New collection! This one is very personal.

Because I'm always in a lot of pain because of Fibromyalgia, sleeping/dreaming is an escape for me. I travel, fly without care. Vivid dreams are also a side effect.

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Phew.

Okay, here it is! Dream With Me.
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