POSTCARD: "Daughter Here is a Photo of The Brave Women of Northern Nigeria. Kayode Ogundamisi".
If you have daughters like I do, please frame the attached photos and let your girls know WOMENS LIBERATION is beyond big "grammar" on TV, long winded articles or witty social media battles, it is beyond a rapid visit to crisis prone North East Nigeria.
In African societies, when the chips are down the women do rise up. Actually they always stand up. We just don't give credit. This is what the traumatized mothers, sisters, aunties or Northern Nigeria did on March 28th 2015.
They defied Boko Harram Terrorists; they ignored the insults from Nigeria's first lady who described them as ‘born troway women’, they discounted the neglect from their Government and refused being NGO and international news report statistics, they braved Boko Harram and held hands in comradeship to vote on March 28, 2015.
The Women came out to enforce their fundamental human rights, these women who spent the last 6 years burying husbands, children, sisters, aunties. These women whose children, whose little girls go to school or can't because of the threat of kidnap and murder. They decided to vote even after Boko haram warnings not to. If they were to be from other parts of the world CNN AND BBC Panorama would be celebrating them, Sky News and Aljazeera News would be dedicating a programme to them. Perhaps Black, African, Nigerian women from Northern Nigeria are expected to be unbending, brave and resilient, they may never be celebrated, they are expected to be strong. Rosa Park refused to stand up for the racists in the United States of America, she sat, she resisted.
The Women of Northern Nigeria did not seat, they have witnessed over 17 Thousand Nigerians murdered in 6 years, they refused to seat at home, and they stood. The emerging government cannot afford to disappoint these brave women and we have them across Nigeria. In the Niger Delta we witness Nigerian women in the hinterlands affected by environmental degradation and they still stand, in the South West we witness women who are yet to feel the impact of the so called women empowerment, girls still get harassed every single day, abused and neglected, yet they still stand, they still brave and hope. I celebrate them unaided. I am framing the photos so my daughters can learn one or two lessons from the VERY BRAVE WOMEN OF NIGERIA.
Photo Credit
Facebook :Kayode Ogundamisi
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