Nahamciaga🏂

Obidi who is in her 30s claimed that women of her generation didn't have access to education. This young lady asked, 'How so, when my grandmother was a teacher?' Instead of answering her, Nigerian feminists have resorted to condescending remarks like, 'You will learn,' 'You are just a child,' 'You will grow up,' 'Experience will teach you,' and 'Men will show you shege.' Are you people mentally unstable? She asked a straightforward question, answer her. ​I have always maintained that what Western feminists fought for is what Nigerian women already possessed by default. The issue is that we do not know our history. There was never a point in time when Nigerian women lacked the right to own property, land, or businesses. Even when restrictions existed in education, it was because it was controlled by the colonial authorities. The moment Africans reclaimed control, education became open and accessible to all. ​Take the Aba Women's War of 1929: it happened because the colonizers tried to overtax women. You don't tax people who don't own property. When colonizers arrived in Africa, women already owned land, controlled trade, and ran businesses. So what exactly did feminism do for Nigeria? If anything, Africans should be saying, 'You had to adopt feminism just to gain the rights we always had.' ​Was our culture perfect? No, it needed refining, just like every other culture. Even the Western world was barbaric at various points in history before refining its practices over time. Someone should actually answer this young girl instead of projecting their own baggage onto her.