AN EXAMONATION OF GENDER- BASED VIOLENCE IN AFRICA; A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF RAPE CULTURE IN NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

The topic under review examined "Gender-Based Violence in Africa; A critical analysis of Rape Culture in Nigeria". Gender-based violence (GBV) is ubiquitous, but still the least human right violation in the globe. Gender-based violence is a developmental challenge globally and it affects women and men from despite ethnicity, class, culture and race. Unfortunately, the scourge of rape in Nigeria is one that has been going on for quite a while and has been disregarded, regularly kept covertly as a result of ingrained man-centric sex generalization, social norms, religion, and media portrayal that see women as a sex object, and discourage open sex conversations. Nevertheless, the issue of rape has led to shame, mental injury, fear, depression and guilt in the victims of rape which affects them negatively. Indeed, the long silence on rape culture in Nigeria should be broken, particularly now that the victims mostly women now dare to speak on their victimization. The purpose of this study i...