A Nigerian feminist has taken to Twitter to air her dislike for the song ”Sweet Mother”. According to her, the song ”glorifies the suffering of women and reduces women’s worth to how much they can endure”.
See her tweets below.
”After becoming a feminist, I cannot tell you how much I hate that fucking “Sweet Mother” song. The worst part is that Naija moms love that song. I hate it so much. I don’t want to hear it ever again.
For me, the song glorifies the suffering of women and reduces women’s worth to how much they can endure. Every day we see these Naija men talk about women and their value to them as lovers, mothers and usually their affection is correlated to how these women serve them.
Ask a Nigerian man why he loves his mother or girlfriend and see if he can list 5 reasons that doesn’t involve her being of service.
Oh the cesspool of Nigerian Men have found my tweet about not liking the “Sweet Mother” song and they are angry at me. I don’t care fam. I don’t care what you think. I do care what women think though.
It is so great to see all these women who were feminists 40 years ago and to see where they are now. Feminism has changed, especially American feminism. It feels like for Nigerian feminism, we are just getting started.”