Here’s a thread of threads on my life and my journey. This thread covers a range of things including the books I read, my fitness journey and other things.
Also, since this is my pinned tweet: this is a Jesus stan account and my life is proof that God transforms completely.
The vagina douching/sweetening industry is thriving and it is a product of centuries of misogyny that has caused women to centre men even at the expense of their health. Ladies, leave your vagina alone! It’s self cleansing. It shouldn’t taste like honey or smell like roses! Sigh.
A hill I stand firmly on is that if hitting adults who can defend themselves is assault, hitting a child, whether it is a “mild knock” or a “quick slap on the wrist” is abuse. Y’all swear you can’t raise children without hitting them but my parents did it and I’m thriving.
Women have been banned from attending university in Afghanistan. There are men across the world who believe and push the idea that it isn’t good for a woman to be highly educated or successful. Men are harming women for their egos, yet people claim there’s no use for feminism.
I need women to normalise asking for consent before touching women they aren’t on such terms with. I’ve had women playfully smack or grab my butt and get offended when I correct them on it because they think it’s okay to do because they are women. No it isn’t okay.
My issue with a woman putting her career on hold to take care of the family for her man’s career to blossom is that many times, when you’re ready to get back in the game, it’s late, or the man doesn’t want to switch positions. It’s a risk I’m never willing to take.
My dad died years ago. My mom being a responsible parent did not make my brother take on any fatherly responsibilities. Till date, my brother knows he is no one’s father in this family and we have grown into self sufficient adults. That’s what a responsible parent does.
Daughters should not be substitute mothers and wives for the men in their families. Raise the men to cook, to clean, to take care of themselves instead of pushing these responsibilities to girls and young women simply because they are women.
Why is it that people do horrible things to others and then remember God? The other day, someone told me to enjoy sexual harassment and when I told him I will enjoy putting his picture on my altar with sand from my father’s grave and cursing him, he remembered God immediately.
Nigeria is a strange place. I just got a call from Chowdeck that they would have to give me a full refund because the dispatch rider was arrested on his way to my house (close to my street actually) and Nigerian police collected the food. God abeg.
If you know and can use English and any Nigerian language fluently, you are bilingual. If you know and can use multiple Nigerian languages, you are a polyglot. I’m tired of people acting like the only valid languages for bilingualism are western.
In the spirit of transparency, I have something to add: My man made doing this easy. He did all the cooking, and was particular about my meals, including things like glycaemic index. Also, he ensured I didn’t give in to unhealthy cravings by making healthy versions. A sweet man.
Today is my 28th birthday and the end of 75 Hard.
My life has changed in 75 days. I worked out everyday for 75 days, quit alcohol and smoking, started eating healthy and found my faith in Jesus again.
At the end of 75 Hard (2 months and 2 weeks), I have lost 10.2kg.
We’re 750 voters on the register here. They only brought 700 ballot papers. So now we are insisting that before we vote, they have to bring the remaining 50 ballot papers. Also, the only party with an agent observing here currently is Labour Party. We wait.
Why is it that when the ethnic minorities in the south south speak on the horrors they experienced in the hands of pro-Biafra forces, some Igbos try to shut them up or call them liars? You ask that your pain be acknowledged but you’re dismissing the pain of others.
Today is my 28th birthday and the end of 75 Hard.
My life has changed in 75 days. I worked out everyday for 75 days, quit alcohol and smoking, started eating healthy and found my faith in Jesus again.
At the end of 75 Hard (2 months and 2 weeks), I have lost 10.2kg.
So many men disgust me. That artist posted about Tems asking for 500k USD for a feature. Men are in his mentions talking about how Tems will have to follow them home and give them kids if they pay that money. Disgusting rapey talk.
The way some people talk about women and sex is so razz. “E fuck am”, “E pound am”. As if sex is something that happens to women, not something that women are active participants and even enjoy. It’s like the concept of women enjoying consensual sex is strange to these people.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with going to chicken republic for a date. Abi we all agree that it’s okay for people to live within their means. Also, why do all date conversations revolve around food or drinks? Explore arts and culture more. There are affordable options.
That EFCC Landlord thing is weird because a lot of people doing legal remote jobs will be affected. For example, the company I work for has no Nigerian office, how do I explain where I work and how I can afford rent to a landlord? It’s weird and wrong.
Lmaooo. As a South South babe, please I can tell you for free that this is a lie. Yoruba men have terrible PR but whatever evil they are capable of, multiply it by 2 million, shake it, press it down and add 4 million extra. That’s the evil of South South men.
As a Nigerian babe, you need to experience dating a man from the South-South once in your lifetime abeg. Your standard will be so high because those guys are the real deal abeg. Gosh!
Go through the quoted replies and see that many humans lack the ability to comprehend. Because this tweet doesn’t blame men. It simply states that women centre men because of learned misogyny and that this centring is harmful to their reproductive health. How is this blaming men?
Here is that thread I promised.
On February 11, 2024, I texted my man about how I was dissatisfied with my life. He kicked into solution mode and during the conversation, we realised all my limitations were mental. I was self-sabotaging because I had bad mental hygiene.
I think I want to make a thread about mental hygiene from my current experience. I’ll start from the night in February I texted my man about how I was losing my mind because I knew I had to change my life but didn’t know how. I’ll make that thread later today.
@Bizzyfinga
Actually, this is due to toxic masculinity (an offshoot of misogyny) which tells men that they need to be men enough. When men do these enlargements (there’s penis surgery for enlargement now?), they do it for their ego because toxic masculinity ties their ego to sexual prowess.
I used to be on team “stop telling poor people not to have children”. Now, I’m on team “if you knowingly have a child you can’t cater for, you are a wicked person”. I know there’s the argument for Eugenics but this argument doesn’t care about the trauma poor children face.
So many women have been sexually harassed by people they consider platonic male friends and even service providers in their own homes. So why is it that every time a woman speaks up about this, silly males crawl out of the woodwork to question her experience?
I need the entire world to know that while peaceful protesters are being gunned down, arrested and tortured by the Nigerian police in Surulere, Lagos, TVC News controlled by Bola Asiwaju Tinubu is busy telling lies and misinforming the world about what is going on.
#SARSMUSTEND
And it’s the dishonesty of people asking me how misogyny connects to personal choices like we haven’t seen misogyny shape the lives of women for so long. Like we haven’t seen misogynistic society lose their shit over women’s personal choices. No vex me abeg.
Please, if you are a woman in Nigeria, the only thing you owe an Uber driver is respect and fair treatment like you would treat any service provider. Greet them, be polite and mostly mind your business. This “extroverted” advice can land you in trouble, please.
I always tell ppl to be extroverted and not stuck up. The job I’ve been working for the past seven months came from an Uber driver. I was sitting in his car talking with him and complained about being a broke college kid and he offered me a job that I wasn’t even qualified for.
This isn’t in defence of Nigeria because “Ghana-must-go” was xenophobic, but I feel the need to point out that Ghana expelled the Nigerian immigrant community in 1969, at the height of the Biafran war. Why? Because Nigerians has grown annoyingly prosperous in Ghana.
My mom has just finished her PhD. She called me and both of us spent minutes just shouting “Double Doctor” back and forth.
I’m proud of her. I’m also proud of myself for paying for her to do it.
Almost all commentary about Mr. Eazi and Temi’s relationship from Nigerians on Twitter are weird. They portray him as “investing smartly in love” or other such things that reduce their relationship to a transaction. It’s disgusting and unkind.
I got bored so I applied for an MBA over the weekend. I just got my admission letter and a 25% scholarship. But I’m not ready to move countries yet. So let me ask them if I can defer till next year. But yea, I believe my sauce.
I tweet my disgust about rapey talk and a man told me to calm down.
As a man, don’t ever tell me to calm down when I am talking about women’s issues. If you want to be stupid, be stupid far away from me.
I blocked him because I abhor stupidity and stupid people.
You mock 18-23 year olds for having opinions. Yet when it comes to sex and relationships, you suddenly start respecting their decisions to be partnered with older manipulative partners. Suddenly, their age no longer hinders then from having sense. Also, the ageism is silly.
We were reading books like “The incorruptible Judge”, “Without A Silver Spoon” and “The Bottled Leopard” as JS1 recommended text. Those books had excellent prose with impressive writing. Compare them to the writings targeted at actual adults now and you’ll see we are regressing.
I said in a group chat that if as a teenager you groped girls without their consent in the name of tapping current, you sexually harassed them and all the men in the group chat had their knickers in a bunch. I stood my ground because it’s true.
1. Her brother was in that house and had more time on his hands, why wasn’t he cooking? Why was she expected to cook?
2. She wasn’t pressing phone, she was studying.
3. At 27, though I cook well, I still don’t do any cooking when I visit my mom’s house. I get served in my room
So I will be in my house pressing phone at 18 years old oh, and my dad will be in the kitchen cooking for me?
Like, why am I 18 and my mom is still cooking and she won't be at home and my dad will then take over?
The parents are to blame anyway.
Who wants to form a book club in Lagos that we meet once a month on Sundays with drinks and food for you to buy at the venue? We’ll read a book a month and discuss it over food and drinks and soft music?
I want an independent lady often means “I want to have a boss in the streets and a slave at home because it looks nice for my ego and I can brag to my friends that no matter how powerful my wife is, I still control her”.
One local tale I hate a lot is the story about the woman who rejected her suitors and then chose a very fine wealthy man who turned out to be a spirit that borrowed body parts. It’s a cautionary tale to encourage women to settle for less under patriarchy.
Ffs it’s just skin. Thighs, mid-riff, arms. Just flesh. There is no genitalia outside.
I think that many Christians sexualise the body parts of others, then try to push their guilt and shame on others. Take responsibility and fix your mind and how you see human bodies.
Can we all agree that bikini is really pant and bra? If it’s not a private beach with yourself or your husband alone, I don’t know why anyone should be out in that.
Then bringing it to obasanjo’s internet is quite a far stretch.
What do I know kwanu? 🥹🥹
In this house, there is nothing like small cheating. And, even as a joke, don’t cast aspersions on my ability to love myself enough to leave toxic situations or my partner’s ability to have self control. We don’t joke like that here.
I’m seeing men lauding a woman for telling women to steam their vaginas after menstrual periods. Please, if you won’t take my word for it, take my mother’s word for it, as she has been a practicing gynaecologist for over 20 years: Do not steam your vagina. It’s unhealthy.
The cheapest crochet product I have bought was a 10k bralette and this was from someone who isn’t selling at Ore’s prices yet. I have bought a crochet sweater for 90k and that’s cheap. But you people swear it’s not possible to make money from it because it’s Ore.
I wanted a Barbie cake, so I got a Barbie cake for myself. Now, in February when my boyfriend and I were still in talking stage, I told him I would love a Disney princesses themed cake. I forgot about that conversation. This man got me that cake. So I have two cakes. ☺️☺️☺️
If you can pronounce the “Igbo” while singing “Igbo and Shayo”, you have no right calling me or any other Igbo (the tribe) person “Ibo”. If you are from an African tribe which has “gb” as a valid sound, I will insist that you pronounce it as “Igbo”.
Some of you need to stop saying stupid shit like this that are dangerous. First, this promotes rape culture because it is possible to get wet while being raped and this is neither a reflection of enjoyment or desire. It’s body functions. Stop being a foolish person.
1. There are many women engaged in providing sanitary pads for underserved communities in Nigeria.
2. The reason pads are expensive is inflation, just like every product. Feminists don’t control inflation.
You would know all these if you weren’t so busy being a pick me.
The TL conversation on nerdy women has tilted towards the misogynistic idea that beauty and conventional performance of gender presentation cannot exist with superior intelligence and intellect. Yes, it is misogyny. I shall not be explaining further. Go research by yourself.
I stopped talking to a man who was being lovey dovey with me and talking about us dating because he told me he doesn’t believe in love, he thinks he is incapable of love and can only feel empathy.
The best thing to do is to leave people like that alone. Let them stay single.
The day I cried in front of a girl after she secured herself a yahoo boy and was ready to leave me.
Something died inside me that day.
Nowadays when they try to guilt trip me, I just go back to that day.
Bro. I been dead inside since uni. Nothing dey move me.
An ex once slapped me across the face. I hit his face back immediately. He said “wow, I thought you are always claiming to be a helpless teddy bear”. That’s same weekend he insisted he didn’t hit me because if he did I won’t survive. Lmaooo.
Just remembered one time an ex slapped me, during an argument. I was driving and he was right beside me when I got slapped. The slap was so hard, I was too stunned to speak. Guess what? He never owned up to what he did. He gaslighted me all through.
I’m on the side of women choosing not to get pregnant because they do not want the changes to their bodies. Pregnancy is too much of a body and life changing experience for people to be pressured or shamed into embarking on. Also, a woman deserves the right to body autonomy.
You guysss. My tattoo is actually healing so well. I survived the itchy period and now it doesn’t feel like I have this magnificent work on my back but I dooooo.
According to my mom’s driver, the women who handle cleaning of the streets of Calabar were protesting today about nonpayment of salaries and you know what security forces did to them? They threw teargas at them.
Patriarchy centres men and now people are pushing for feminism that centres men too? Making it like you have to show men how feminism benefits them for progress to happen. So basically, unless your oppressor deems it favourable, the oppression won’t stop?
The sexualisation of women’s bodies is not a product of them being nude. It is a product of men sexualising them simply because they are women. Men sexualise fully clad women all the time.
Once again I am going to say it that the church is the reason people are leaving church. And it’s unkind this thing where the church burns or breaks people and tells them that if they leave because of church hurt, then they are immature or they didn’t focus on God enough.
The problem with remembering God after you test me and I decide to put the fear of God inside you is that I assure you that God will forget you on my behalf. I’m heavy on that “God destroy the life of my enemies” side that David was on.
I increased my income by over 50%, provided support for my family and my loved ones, paid rent in two houses, paid for my mom’s PhD, co-founded a library and started a business.
Someone said “nephew is when it’s your brother’s child while niece is when it’s your sister’s child”.
I guess the Nigerian educational system has gotten worse because this is basic nursery school stuff that someone is saying rubbish like this about.
During my uni days I ran for Nigerian Students Association President in my school. I said my manifesto and all the things I intended to achieve. My opponent came up and said my manifesto was good but “we all know presidency is a man’s job”. I won that election with a huge margin.
This conversation reminds me of the last SUG presidential elections I witnessed. The female contestant came out to give us her impressive credentials and tell us her feasible plans.
The male contestant came out to tell us you don't need any credentials to be a leader.🤚😩
Also, mutual compromise is a thing. Both of you can go slow in your careers, pool your resources and take care of your home together. This idea that women have to give up so much and that men have to provide all the financial resources would never make sense to me.
It’s also a risk that is alien to me because none of my parents put their careers on hold for the other, and they made it work. I saw my mom go after the things she wanted and saw my father thrive as an academic and paramount ruler, so I have no frame of reference.
After we finish dealing with South Africa’s open Xenophobia, we will address how close Ghanaians are to Xenophobia once Nigerians are involved and I’ll share some of the things I saw in my 4 years in that country. And we’ll talk about how our government does nothing to protect us
I’m tired of seeing advice for women on how to be safe, how to modify their existence to please men or not to annoy them. All that advice is worthless bullshit because men are not facing consequences for their actions yet women are expected to live based on the whims of men.
It’s irritating how families have a problem with the gay family member but not the abusive family member. Person go dey deck im wife you’ll be doing love and light. But someone comes out as gay and they suddenly become the devil. Fucktards.
Actually, my parents’ empathetic way of raising kids helped make me the emotionally intelligent person that I am today. I can’t say the same for most of you because your first resort is to yell at children, followed closely by physically or verbally abusing them.
“Treat your body as a room for your future babies”
God forbid. My body is fully mine, not a room for anybody. Imagine expecting women to live their lives reducing their bodies to rooms for kids they may not even be interested in having. That’s disturbing.
Men will see a woman who exists on her own terms, tell her how that’s the exact thing they love about her, worm their way into her life, and then decide to subdue or crush her by all means. It’s fucked up disgusting behaviour. And I hate men like that.
And it often shows in how they navigate life; there’s often a bit of myopia, a lack of “roundedness”, and more amusingly, a misplaced feeling of superiority over those whose reading appetites allow them experience the joy of engaging diverse genres of literary works.
I’m an academic. Sociolinguistics in relation to language as a tool in diverse fields including gender studies is exactly my bag. You’re still struggling with the proper use of “its” and “it’s” and you think you can talk to me about use of terms and intelligence?
Pple just like throwing around the word misogyny and it’s different derivatives. Do u actually know what u r talking about or just try to use grammar to feel intelligent?
Please, your parents are human. Instead of idolizing their “resilience”, extend empathy to them. Extend emotional care to them. They are as weary, if not more, of this life as you are too. Your parents have mental health too.
Several women answered you properly. Here’s my tweet responding to you properly. You asked a question that came across as a bad faith question and women still answered you but this is the nonsense you have chosen to run with?
Returning to self has meant realising that my body did not become glorious. I have always been glorious and made for glory
⁃An excerpt from “Body Work: On Returning to Self”; an essay I just published on Medium. Link Below 👇🏾
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@byakinyele
Men have always had greater access to education and the instruments of power and wealth creation but yea, go ahead and tell me how feminists are fighting for nothing because you have your head so far up patriarchy’s arse that the shit has blinded your eyes and made you deaf.
The things Chika tweets are so mean spirited and it’s crazy because this is someone other people have stood up for when she was bullied on the internet. It’s truly unsettling.
This December, I just want to remind people that “I love you” is not the same as “I want you”, “I want you is not the same as I want to be with you”, and “I want to be with you” is not exactly a start to a relationship.
Be guided and have lots of fun this month.
The things you people say not to “cause a gender war” over are gender war issues. Women and girls are being harmed, discriminated against, and treated as second class citizens because of their gender. It’s actually oppression and not a war because we aren’t fighting back enough.
You know the funny thing? Men say these things to Uber drivers too and nobody tells them to be polite and nice to drivers. It’s always women. Let’s also not forget that many of these Uber drivers assume politeness is an excuse to make a pass at a woman (I speak from experience).
I cringe at how some ladies talk to Uber drivers.
You can be polite and nice. It doesn't cost much. Why are you being all rude to the guy?
Don't you have a map?
Are you not a driver?
Stop wasting my time?
Drop those sentences. It's not necessary. Attitude is everything.
If we must turn to the ugly “Ghana-must-go” incident to point out Nigeria’s xenophobia, it is only right that we speak comprehensively of the history of both countries. The only reason why we hear of one and not the other is because Nigeria is terrible at transmitting history.
Nobody is saying don’t correct kids. Correct them like human beings with functional brains capable of being reasoned with. A large portion of why I am a well-rounded individual is that my parents knew how to talk to me. They never hit me or yelled at me.
Misogyny makes people incredibly stupid because:
1. This is a poverty issue; an issue that people face irrespective of gender as the world continuously bows to capitalism.
2. There are feminists who are earning and living well.
Learn to use the brain in your skull.
Women in Nigeria have been killed for not fixing a plate for men and you wonder why women talk about the way men view cooking for them as problematic. Heck, you’ll be in talking stage with one man and he’ll be asking you if you can cook for him and getting upset when you say no.
A woman said she will always be Christian and feminist, she didn’t insult any of you but you people quoted her tweet and bullied her till she deactivated her account. It’s very weird behaviour. There’s no movement worth bullying people for the way you lot have done.
I know this is bants, but this is unkind. I have seen men weaponise this type of attention to manipulate women and then turn around to say “but I never said I wanted/liked you like that”.
Jokes o, but people need to do better.
Please dead this “false accusations make it had to believe real victims” talk.
I am proof that real victims, even as minors, hardly get believed, not because of false accusations but because people don’t just want to. They’d say you enjoyed it before believing it was rape.