Okeoma Ibe

Beyond the celebrations, I am inclined to think that future IWDs should take both a prospective and retrospective look at the campaign for a more inclusive world.

Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh, has been in power for nearly 23 years. As a 29-year-old army officer, he overthrew the country’s first president, Dawda Jawara, in a bloodless coup on July 22, 1994. In 1996, he won the first of four successive elections to serve as president of the republic.

The 2016 US presidential election was always going to produce an unprecedented outcome. Had she won, Hillary Clinton would have become the first woman to be elected US president. Going by many pre-election polls, that was the outcome most Americans preferred. But the polls were wrong.

In a piece I wrote on the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD) in 2015, I argued for collective action to “make it happen” for women and girls. In an apparent follow-up to last year, this year’s IWD focuses on gender parity.

The Boko Haram insurgency is exacting a huge toll on the populations in the North-East of Nigeria.

International Women’s Day 2015 [celebrated on Sunday, 8 March"> aims to encourage effective action for advancing and recognizing women. In a piece I wrote on this occasion in 2014, I argued for collective action within our spheres of influence for a better deal for women and girls.

The title of this piece is a modified version of John Campbell’s 2010 masterpiece, ‘Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink’.

Domestic violence has been described as abuse of power, trust, or dependency.