Popular Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie, has reacted to the increase of rape and murder of females in Nigeria, stating that there is an epidemic of male entitlement.
Adichie made this known during a United Nations virtual forum on sexual and gender-based violence on Wednesday.
Citing recent cases in Nigeria, the feminist decried the pervasiveness of rape and other forms of sexual assault on women and girls in society.
She said;
“I think that there is an epidemic of male entitlement towards female bodies. It’s a global epidemic, and it’s something we need to address.
“What I have noticed in reactions to these horrific cases is that there is a language around rape and sexual assault on women that we really need to think and talk about.
“We live in a culture that diminishes women, and so both men and women participate in that culture’’.
