By Babafemi Ojudu I HAVE been looking at this photograph, trying to remember what made us laugh. Was it a joke? An outrageous proposition? One of those arguments in which young journalists settle the problems of their country before remembering that they have yet to settle their own? I cannot recall. But the happiness is […]
FOR MANY expectant mothers, the dream of a less painful labour is a deeply held hope. In Ibadan, Oyo State, that hope can turn into horror when childbirth is accompanied by an act of mutilation disguised as tradition. Women in labour have not only endured pain but have also been subjected to the debilitating age-old […]
