Month: February 2025

What we said about Tems’ Grammy winner – “Love Me Jeje”

Her winning song is a remake of Seye Sodimu’s classic song which famously featured and introduced the world to Nollywood actress, Shaffy Bello, who played his love interest in the video of the song. While the internet is bugging out following Tems’ failure to mention Sodinmu in her acceptance speech at the Grammys, we present excerpts of TLR’s reviews of the album and our thoughts on the song:

Feminist perspectives in Aiwanose Odafen’s ‘Tomorrow I Become A Woman’ – Olukorede S Yishau

Odafen’s novel raises critical posers: Is it right for a husband to feel slighted because his father-in-law bought his wife a car without informing him first? Why do some men find it easy to turn their wives into punching bags? Does corporal punishment bring about good behaviour in a woman? Why does a generation of mothers justify the domestic abuse of their daughters? What are a woman’s primary responsibilities?