‘Success isn’t about how much money you make.
It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.’
Michelle Obama
Friday Quote
Profiles
Call for Applications: 10000 Voices
1000 voices is a coalition of more than 1,700 women’s rights advocates in 128 countries that work to provide backup to frontline women rights...
Wednesday Quote: Michelle Bachelet
Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource.
The challenge then for UN Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this...
Wednesday Quote: Rosa Parks
“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people'.
Rosa Parks
Opinion
Pains of being Girl/Woman
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We are in the twentieth century, but there are still many societies and people who feel saddened at the birth of a girl child;...
Thursday Quote
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Make a choice:
Continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding,
Or you find your identity independent of it.
You push for color-blind casting;...
Wednesday Quote
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'Happiness is not in doing nothing.
Happiness is to be overloaded the whole day,
Become exhausted by evening,
And realize you did something worthy'.
Margaret Thatcher
News
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
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Wangari Muta Maathai, an African woman of Kenyan descent was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya in 1940.
She obtained a degree in...
Salihat Rahaman: The making of Abaya Diva
Salihat Raham
Salihat Rahaman was born in Ile-Ife, Osun State to Prof. Moruf Rahaman and Hajiya Aisha Abdulrahman. She is one of three daughters. She...
Friday Quote
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The sun doesn't loose its beauty when covered by the clouds;
The same way your beauty doesn't fade when you wear hijab'.
Angelina Jolie
Women
Born Female and Ibo- Ella Umeh-Ezeadilieje
Being born female and Igbo is both a blessing and a curse. Our society holds the girl child to moral standards that even the...
Tuesday Quote
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'I was inspired by a traditional African tool that has three legs and a basin to sit on.To me the three legs represent three...
My take on Early Marriage: Yushau Shu’aibu
In preparation for the 2021 edition of the International Women’s Day, Hawwah Jiddare, a vocal feminist from Northern Nigeria and Chevening Scholar requested if...
