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The silence broke me and also the fact that I lived with my abuser even when the abuse had stopped. This was because I felt I owed my aunt my life and everything I had become since she had no child of her

It was during the long-term holiday break, just before I was going to start my SS3 and my mother called me into her room and handed me a bible. She asked, “What have you been doing with my husband?”. That came to me

When I was in my fourth year (400 Level) of university, I attempted suicide again – But really, I’ve probably attempted suicide about 50 times and I must have had suicidal ideations about 500 times.  I say four times because I can literally

I went to the university as a 21-year-old broken young woman. The real trauma began when I got to the university, where I struggled to find myself despite being the top student and head girl in secondary school. I realized I was lost,

I asked Nissi about whether it was a good decision to be signed to her brother Burna Boy’s record label, Spaceship Records.           View this post on Instagram                      

Today, it’s Nissi Ogulu! How to watch the FULL episode:  Subscribe on watch.withchude.com to watch the full video.  Subscribe on listen.withchude.com or Apple Premium to listen to the full podcast.

At that time, I told my best friend about the abuse, and she advised that I should inform my mother about it. I couldn’t tell mummy because she didn’t have a child for this man – So he would send us both away. 

I always say to people that sexual abuse was the price I had to pay for an education. The abuse went on for seven long years and it was killing me – I was dying slowly.  I attempted my first suicide at age

I wasn’t this fluent in English and I always like to say this first in every conversation – I was a village girl. I was born in a small village in Akure and when I turned seven, my Father brought me to Lagos