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I Wish I Was Making This Up
There is a cultural festival where men go on a 7-day raping spree.
Yesterday, while weaving our hair and gisting, my cousin and housemate asked if I had seen what was happening in Delta State. I said I hadn’t. Then they began to explain a cultural festival that left me utterly baffled, flabbergasted, and restless through the night.
They said there was a festival in some communities in Delta State where men were allowed to rape any woman in sight for a period of seven days.
And when I say rape, I do not mean one man assaulting one woman.
I mean gang rape.
When Reality Sounds Like Fiction
I looked at them in disbelief and immediately picked up my phone.
As if on cue, Instagram delivered the evidence. A video from the said festival was the very first thing I saw when I opened the app.
(And yes, one day we will talk about how Instagram listens to conversations through microphones and harvests data from practically every app on your phone. But not today.)
Today is about the barbaric acts being carried out against women.
