What is it like to be a Woman in Nigeria?
Meet Florence Warmate and her friends from a tiny book club in Abuja. Inspired by a famous Nigerian writer, they sparked a global conversation about everyday sexism.
Meet Florence Warmate and her friends from a tiny book club in Abuja. Inspired by famous Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, they sparked a global conversation about everyday sexism.
Find out what happened to the HIV-positive man who stood in a park in Finland with his eyes closed, and asked passers-by if they dared to touch him.
And we hear why journalists in Burundi have been forced underground. In the midst of a government imposed media blackout, members of one group are risking their lives by continuing to produce news reports – and posting them on social media.
Joining us from Nairobi is BBC Journalist Maud Jullien.
Produced by Estelle Doyle
Photo: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Photo Credit: Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images
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