Category: Tell your own story

sexual harrassment

“I was afraid of sex so I would never let him pull down my jeans but his fingers were allowed to go in”- Anonymous

August 5, 2016

“…I remember back then when I started understanding what sex and virginity was, I would wonder if I was a virgin cause too many fingers had gone into my panties and even the real thing a couple of times but none ever entered me, at least not that I could remember. Around 13years old, an uncle came to live with my family and he picked up where others left…” … More “I was afraid of sex so I would never let him pull down my jeans but his fingers were allowed to go in”- Anonymous

“That night I shut myself completely from God. I cursed him. I said HE was wicked”- Agboye Deborah

August 3, 2016

“…that night I shut myself completely from God. I cursed him. I said HE was wicked. I told him he never loved me. I went to the kitchen took a knife and tried killing myself but it wasn’t going through. I wanted to commit suicide because I couldn’t take it anymore but the knife wasn’t piercing in. The ten commandments kept ringing in my heart. My family were so angry with me that day. They called me a disappointment, a failure, all sort of names I deserved. They asked what went wrong I couldn’t answer. I was surprised myself…” … More “That night I shut myself completely from God. I cursed him. I said HE was wicked”- Agboye Deborah

Bernice Odunayo Osuolale

“To conveniently read and take novels in and out of school, I had to tear a part of my school uniform”- Bernice Odunayo Osuolale

July 30, 2016

…I tore a part of the coat and put the book inside it. I’d sneak to the library just to read the novels and satisfy my heart craving. The worst part of these was that I didn’t only read for reading sake but to arouse myself. I was exposed to so many nasty things and I kept meditating on it so much that I was eager to try it out… … More “To conveniently read and take novels in and out of school, I had to tear a part of my school uniform”- Bernice Odunayo Osuolale

“Guys will come with sweet tongues, begging you on their knees with tears”- Victoria Oluwaferanmi David

July 27, 2016

“focus on God, your academics, future, after all that has been achieved, then the right guy/girl will come naturally, and through the help of the Holy Spirit, you will know.” … More “Guys will come with sweet tongues, begging you on their knees with tears”- Victoria Oluwaferanmi David

Rape

“He ordered me to pull off my clothes, and if I didn’t, his boys downstairs would do the job for him. He slapped me”- Anonymous

July 22, 2016

‘You will satisfy me and I will satisfy you’ was the next thing I heard. I was still wondering what he meant by that statement when, in a twinkle of an eye, he had changed from the once lively person I had been chatting with all along. He ordered me to pull off my clothes… … More “He ordered me to pull off my clothes, and if I didn’t, his boys downstairs would do the job for him. He slapped me”- Anonymous

Jane Kareem

“Staying single has largely helped my decision to stay sexually pure”- Jane Kareem

July 19, 2016

At some point, I wanted to get married at the age of 25, so I figured going into a relationship at perhaps 22 or 23 years would increase my chances of the perfect love life which I dreamt of. Prior to that, I considered the age of 18, since that was the age at which one was considered to be an adult in Nigeria. It didn’t work, obviously… … More “Staying single has largely helped my decision to stay sexually pure”- Jane Kareem

Ademiluyi Moyosade Eniola

“Have a standard, live up to it and handle things just the way Christ would”- Ademiluyi Moyosade (Eniola)

July 18, 2016

…I’m aspiring to be a psychiatrist someday while studying public health nursing at d Osun State School of Health Technology Ilesa, Nigeria. I’m also aspiring to be a student of the ‘prestigious’ Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU)… … More “Have a standard, live up to it and handle things just the way Christ would”- Ademiluyi Moyosade (Eniola)

“I learnt more about pornography; found it so much fun that we even argued on the number of porn videos each of us had watched”- Anonymous

July 16, 2016

I learnt more about pornography and I found it so much fun that we even argued on the number of pornographic videos each of us had watched. My academic results were just there; not bad, I was on an average level… … More “I learnt more about pornography; found it so much fun that we even argued on the number of porn videos each of us had watched”- Anonymous

Toluwalase Ayomide Bismark

“I want to take the risk, to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed”- Toluwalase Ayomide Bismark

July 11, 2016

…I talked to friends and leaders that could help me; I engaged myself in various activities in church and attended seminars at home. I challenged myself to start writing and singing. It wasn’t easy but I knew I was done getting stuck. I want to take the risk, to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid, to think and act for myself and face the world boldly and say “Yes I have made it”… … More “I want to take the risk, to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed”- Toluwalase Ayomide Bismark