We will never forget!
Nigeria is seven hours ahead of where I live in the United States, and I had not checked the news before my previous post. I just saw the punitive measures meted out to Senator Natasha.
I thought Nigeria would prove me wrong, but here we go again.
For everyone who supported that vindictive measure, you have further dug your names in mud in the annals of history. Nigeria will not always be like this. Against all hope, I dare to hope that everyone involved in this, your children, children, children, will have to shalaye till the end of time. Because there are scholars around the globe watching this moment.
Hundreds of your memoirs in time to come won't cleanse these errors, I promise you.
Riffing off of Hortense Spillers, what we have seen is "madness that arises in the ecstasy of unchecked power".
To Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan
You are a beacon of hope.
A bright light that history will remember
Like the elite women in Lagos who played a significant role in the establishment of the first girls boarding school, Queen's College in Lagos, you have etched your name in history.
like the lioness of Lisabi, Mrs Funmilayo-Kuti who looks both traditional and colonial authority in the face
like Alhaja Humuani Alaga, who created schools for the Muslim community in Ibadan
Like Alimotu Pelewura and the Lagos women market
Like Women who participated in the women's war of 1920.
It is another women's month; let the femocrats and their minions begin another pseudo-gender campaign.