“How do you know what to do with your life?” is a question Kemi* may never get an answer to. She’s gone from medicine to discovering a passion for teaching, then health and safety, before choosing a social media career. Now, she’s just “winging it”.

Navigating life as a woman in the world today is interesting. From Nigeria to Timbuktu, it’ll amaze you how similar all our experiences are. Every Wednesday, women the world over will share their experiences on everything from sex to politics right here. This is Zikoko’s What She Said. The subject of today’s What She Said is a 23-year-old […]

The subject of today’s What She Said is an 18-year-old lesbian who is living her best life. She talks about wanting to be a Reverend Father when she was a child, her hatred for skirts partly because of assault, living in a glass closet, and being scared of men. Tell me a memory from your […]

The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 27-year-old queer woman who talks about being abused as a child, navigating her sexuality, and getting an abortion at the age of 20.

The subject of this week's What She Said is a 26-year-old Somalian woman living in the US. After she was almost married off to a 30-year-old man when she was 17, she realised she couldn't continue to live with her family and began planning her escape.

This year’s Big Brother Naija show came to switch up the script we have been used to with past BBNaija seasons. This year it’s all about love, securing your spec, and sustaining your ship. Naturally, there’s been silent beef between people who find themselves gunning for the same spec category. Especially between Erica and Wathoni; […]

The subject of this week is a 55-year-old woman who opted for early retirement this year. And is spending most of her time with her husband, children and just stopping to smell the roses. We talked about sex, financial advice, feminism and everything in between. If you got in a time capsule, what’s the first […]

How market now? My sister I day o. Market isn’t booming right now but in all things we thank God. How bad is it? Things have even started to pick up now. But you see that March and April, it was a real struggle.  Those were the hardest months I’ve had in many years. Even […]

I didn’t plan to be one, now I can’t get out of it.

99% of the women in our poll don't want to be forced into having sex. Shocker right?