Enajite Efemuaye

issue 1 8 mins read By Ayodimeji Ameenat & Enajite Efemuaye 28 August, 2024 8 mins read Romantic love has always been in high demand; and like everything in high demand, it is not always easy to find. Some find love by locking eyes and smiling across a room; others have to put in more work. Olawale and Linda first met face-to-face at a Mr. Biggs in Lagos Mainland.

For an independent, single lady in my late twenties, there seems to be a acceptance that I have a license to have sex at will and if I’m not having sex it’s because some man hurt me and I was paying back all of ‘man’ kind. I remember being in school and someone told me, “it’s because you’re staying with your brother.

The recent death of Fatmata Turay, a 19 year-old girl from Makeni, Sierra Leone, who died after a botched female genital mutilation (FGM) operation has continued to cause a public outrage. There are loud  calls from rights groups for the government to take a tough stance on the harmful practice.