Foreword, We Rise: Stories of women who overcome, as told by women who o...
Foreword: We Rise Stories of women who overcome, as told by women who overcame. Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome Professor of Political Science, African & Women's Studies Leonard & Claire Tow Professor, 2015/2016 Brooklyn College, CUNY I ordinarily don’t read short stories. But my dear Sister, Ejiro Otive Igbuzor asked me to write the foreword to this collection, and I could not refuse. I am glad that I accepted. These stories are gems that explore numerous manifestations of gender relations in Nigerian society. They offer skillfully written, interesting, thought-provoking and imaginative accounts of the relationships between men and women. They expose the challenges, fault-lines and pitfalls as well as the bittersweet and tumultuous relations of dating, marriage, and breakups....