DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: BREAKING THE SILENCE OF CULTURE AND RELIGIOUS BIAS

By Caroline Ameh

She walked absent-mindedly with her baby strapped to her back looking behind her at intervals as if trying to hide from someone.

I was waiting patiently for Onyinye Igwe, 34 in her neighbour’s shop across the road. Onyinye finally arrived, scruffy, with her slim figure, obviously looking unhappy even as she tried to fake a smile by saying “it is well my sister.” She asked her neighbour what type of a journalist I was before granting the scheduled interview. “I don’t want my face to show on any Television! Mama Bayo, you know my oga, na die be that!” she said in pidgin before summing up the courage to talk with me.

“I have been married for 10 years and it has been a decade of pains, sorrows and regret,” she said when asked how she had been faring in her marriage.

Read the full article about the stigmatization women in Domestic Abuse faces and the Culture of silence that needs to be broken.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: BREAKING THE SILENCE OF CULTURE AND RELIGIOUS BIAS

Support for the above report was provided by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID Africa) and it was made possible through funding support from The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).