1/If you have the heart for it, and you understand Igbo, you can watch/listen to the original interview here. It's heartbreaking : bbc.com/igbo/afirika-5…
2/ How is he justifying domestic violence, sexual assault? In the name of culture? Whose culture? And women should be flattered when they are sexually harassed?
3/ How can he, working in the industry that he does , with smart, intelligent women, acting in movies with such women , even directed by such women come out and say that women have small brains. And imply that they are less intelligent (than men?)

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1 Apr
‘The African Woman’ (For The ‘Real’ African Man)
1/ Never talk about African women as if they were individuals. Remember: they are a monolithic group. There is the African Woman of which there are two subgroups: the Bad African Woman (BAW) and the Good African Woman (GAW).
2/ Members of each group are easy to spot: The Bad African Woman is a feminist which means that she hates men and spends her days pretending to be happy and her nights crying in loneliness because she has put career before marriage.
3/ Note: it doesn’t matter whether she’s married or not, that’s beside the point. For her, always use adjectives like ‘bitter’, ‘frustrated’, ‘sad’.
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19 Mar
On Sunday, African Giant, Burna Boy won his first Grammy for Best Global Music, and Wizkid’s collaboration with Beyonce (and her nine-year-old daughter) won Best Music Video. Nigerians were ecstatic.
Even Tiwa Savage and the two Kuti brothers, Femi and Made, whose collaboration with Coldplay would have won them certificates (rather than Grammy statuettes) had it won (which it didn’t) were being congratulated on Twitter by Naijans for winning. All win na win abeg.
I am not being facetious. Far from it. It's easy for us, now, to take the fact of Nigerian music going global for granted. H/ever, those of us who were born in the 70’s and came of age in the 90’s know exactly how big a deal it is -
Read 21 tweets
5 Mar
I woke up (earlier this week) to the good news that the 279 girls kidnapped last week from Government Girls Junior Secondary School (GGJSS), Jengebe, Zamfara State, had been released.
I had my piece for this week all ready and had to discard it, but I have never been more grateful for a curve ball being thrown at me. When the news of their abduction broke, parallels were immediately drawn with that of the Chibok girls which happened seven years ago.
Everyone wondered if in 2028, the Zamfara girls would still be in captivity. Of the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Government Secondary School Chibok in 2014, 103 were released, 57 fled and four later escaped while 112 are still missing.
Read 20 tweets
14 Feb
So last week I wrote about the disinheritance of daughters in parts of Igbo land & to my disbelief, there were Ndi Igbo claiming that this customary law of inheritance that privileges sons doesn't exist, that I had somehow fabricated this out of thin air
dailytrust.com/free-yourselves
(even as I and others on my TL gave concrete, real life examples and some Igbo daughters have successfully brought cases contesting the law before civil court).
One ill-informed young man stated that I had to “malign Igbo culture” so that “white people” would give me money. LOL. I understand that we don’t like to see the worst of ourselves reflected back to us but how do we progress if we refuse to confront it?
Read 25 tweets
8 Feb
from: escr-net.org/caselaw/2018/o…
"Onyibor Anekwe & Anor v. Mrs. Maria Nweke, Supreme Court of Nigeria, SC. 129/2013.
Gender Equality in Inheritance Rights affirmed by Nigerian Supreme Court
This case challenges the customary law of male primogeniture of the Awka people in Nigeria.
The Supreme Court of Nigeria found that any custom that denies women, particularly widows, their inheritance, is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience and is condemned by the Supreme Court.
Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Maria Nweke was asked to vacate her house by her late husband’s father on the ground that she had no male child in the house. erty goes to the deceased’s father and eldest brother.
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7 Feb
I write about disinheriting daughters in parts of Igbo land, a culture that privileges men and Igbo fathers not writing their wills in toy column today: "In 1981, when Lazarus Ogbonna Ukeje died, his daughter Gladys, was supposed to inherit nothing from him.
Not because the father thought she’d squander whatever inheritance she got. Not because she didn’t want any part of it. The reason was because she was his daughter and not his son.
Like many men of his generation, Lazarus Ukeje had no will, but it was taken for granted that the Igbo customary law of succession excluding female children from eligibility to inherit their fathers’ property would prevail.
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