Move Over Netflix: TikTok’s Organic Romcom
By Ifeoma Udu I have been watching TikTok accidentally build its own romcom franchise for three years and I need everyone to take this seriously. Not because it’s groundbreaking cinema. Not because these are particularly complicated stories. But because Hollywood has spent decades and billions of dollars trying to manufacture the kind of emotional investment […]
The Rise of the Home Café
by Emmanuella Abraham Why everyone wants their kitchen to feel like their favourite coffee shop Not long ago, the coffee shop was where people went to work, think, meet friends, or simply spend time away from home. Today, something interesting is happening. Instead of escaping to cafés, people are bringing the café experience home. Across […]
Your Brain Has Been Lying to You Every Night: And It Is Called Dreaming
By Daniel Agusi Some nights I am watching myself from above, a spectator in my own story, like I bought a front-row ticket to a movie where the main character just happens to be me. Other nights, I am fully in control. I snap my fingers and change locations. I fly. I rewrite the scene […]
Raising Women Magazine Issue 047 – July 2026
Every generation inherits a conversation that quietly reveals who it is becoming. I believe this is one of ours.
This issue of Raising Women Magazine was conceived around the theme of friendship, celebrating the people who shape our lives, challenge our thinking, and help us become better versions of ourselves. Yet as we prepared these pages, another conversation became impossible to ignore.
The Olódò Uprising has grown beyond social media into a wider debate about intelligence, culture, influence, and the values we are passing on to the next generation. As a magazine committed to thoughtful discourse, we felt compelled to lend our voice, particularly to explore what this moment means for women and girls.
Alongside that conversation, this edition reflects on the friendships that sustain us, the communities that strengthen us, and the relationships that quietly shape our future.
Because the conversations we choose to have today will determine the society we leave behind tomorrow.
Before She Learned to Shrink: The Quiet Ways the World Teaches Girls to Become Smaller
by Dr. May Ikeora-Amamgbo There is a particular kind of heartbreak that does not happen loudly. It does not announce itself through dramatic endings or visible collapse. It happens quietly, almost invisibly, in the life of a girl who once spoke freely before she learned to measure herself against the comfort of others. You can […]
Up Coming Events
by Oluchi Obiahu MEET AFRICA FASHION FESTIVAL (MAFEST) 2026 Date: Monday, May 25, 2026 Location: Abuja, Nigeria Get ready for one of the most creative fashion gatherings on the continent. Meet Africa Fashion Festival (MAFEST) 2026 is set to spotlight African ingenuity, sustainable luxury, and the future of eco-conscious design in Abuja. This edition places […]
Past Events
By Oluchi Obiahu CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2026 Dates: May 12 – 23, 2026 For twelve sun-drenched days on the French Riviera, the 79th Festival de Cannes made a confident return to its art-house roots. Under the presidency of South Korean director Park Chan-wook, the Palais des Festivals welcomed a bold slate of auteur-driven films and […]
POETRY
by The Lulu I miss my childhood. I miss the version of me that laughed from the stomach, that ran barefoot without worrying about tomorrow, that thought pain only meant falling from a bicycle. Or taking hot pap and akara on Saturday morning in a rush I thought my life was over when I made […]
The Glamour of the Affair: Why Pop Culture Can’t Stop Romanticizing Betrayal
By Ifeoma Udu Pop culture has a strange obsession: it keeps turning betrayal into beauty. Not kindness. Not consistency. Not emotional safety. Instead, it canonizes longing, chaos, and the toxic myth that love must hurt to be real. From Bridgerton, where restraint is turned into a visual language of almost-touching, to One Day, which stretches […]
From Hand-Stitched to Hashtag Cute
by Francisca Sinjae I don’t think clothes were ever just clothes. In the old photos my grandma keeps, children don’t look like me. They look like small versions of serious people. Boys in stiff shirts, like they were already late for important meetings. Girls in dresses that sit too still, like they were told not […]