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Were you really a Barbie girl in a Barbie world if you didn’t get a Barbie princess cake for every birthday party till you were 12?

Clara went viral when she revealed she made a pact to marry her best friend if they were both single at 30. She talks about their eight-year friendship, how they keep in touch despite living on different continents, and why their pact doesn’t mean they’re holding out for each other.

The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 26-year-old Nigerian woman who shares a nostalgic story behind how her book obsession started, why she thinks romance novels ruined her love life and her journey to collecting all her favourite classics, one book at a time.

Her first husband called her “The most beautiful girl in Nigeria”, love-bombing her before making her his third wife then only interacting with her for sex. She was 19; he was 39. By 22, she had two children she couldn’t tell her second husband about.  Now, she’s alone in Canada with her third and last child. Here’s what the 29-year-old said:

This week’s #ZikokoWhatSheSaid subject is a 29-year-old Nigerian woman who lives with her parents but hasn’t left her house since February. She talks about discovering the reclusive lifestyle during COVID and connecting better with online friends than those around her.

This week’s #ZikokoWhatSheSaid subject is a 23-year-old Nigerian woman. She tells us about discovering her feminism, pansexuality and atheism through books while living with her close-knit conservative family.

Iya Arike passed away last year and life hasn’t been the same for Arike. In this letter #ToHER, Arike can’t believe life has the audacity to go on without her mum and shares all the moments about her future she can’t believe she’ll face alone.

"During this time, home meant a lot of things. On some days, it was my father’s house. On other days, it was my best friend’s room in hall two or her parent’s house." In this article, Mariam talks about what "home" means to her. Read here:

Women are rich of course, but how much of that money goes into their savings? Here, six millennial women on different salaries tell us about their money plans.