Words Are Indispensable

  Rape & Justification I grew up listening to some people blame dressing as being the primary reason girls/women are raped.I almost believed this lie. Over the years,I have felt outrage whenever I came across people who justified rape in any way.It is sad when people use dressing as an excuse for rape. How does anyone dare think that way?Tell me,did dressing have anything to do with a 7 year old being raped by a family friend?Oh,what about that 17 year old girl who was raped on her way back from church?Or the 15 year old who was raped by her secondary school teacher?Tell me about their dressing again. Hold on,what about our sisters up north who are mere digits in alarming rape statistics?What did that have to do with their dressing being that these ladies are usually covered from head to toe?Are you aware of rape statistics in countries like India? I remember having a conversation with a friend that has stuck with me for years. He said "one of the saddest things under t

  WE DIE EVERYDAY Do you know that we are dying? Oh yes we are! We started to die everyday from the very day we became old enough to make our own choices. That day was not today; it was the day we witnessed the truth but decided to go with the lie. It was that day. We die everyday we beat that 10-year old girl and accuse her of developing too quickly and seducing the "innocent" 38-year old man who forcefully violated her. We die everyday we set free a man guilty of multiple atrocities and take an innocent man in his stead,simply because the guilty man is the senator's son and the innocent man "has nobody". We die everyday we discriminate Ibrahim,Chinaza and Tope because they are not from our tribe,state and certainly not members of "our church". We die everyday we give special attention to Emeka because he is the minister's son, and to Aisha because her father was the former governor. We die every Sunday when we "dedicate" the front