On a bright Tuesday morning in Wakiso District, laughter fills the schoolyard of Divine Mercy Junior Primary School. Boys and girls chase one another across the dusty compound, their blue-and-white uniforms fluttering in the breeze. In one corner, a group of pupils crowd around their teacher, acting out a short drama. One boy snatches a girl’s exercise book and mocks her. Before the teasing escalates, the teacher halts the play and asks softly, “How do you think she feels?” T

Nigerian women shoulder the cost of surgery and contraception as the government prioritizes other health programmes. Women of African descent are four times more likely to have uterine fibroids. Although many of these cases are asymptomatic and undiagnosed, published estimates say black women face a higher lifetime risk of up to 80% by age 50, globally. These high risk factors are linked to genetics, hormones, and delay in care during the first five years of diagnosis. ​Yet i

Rose sits in the waiting room of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Isolo, Lagos, waiting to receive her prescription for oral contraceptives. While her husband supports her decision, her family does not, and she is here despite their insistence on her having more children before trying them, believing that they can take away her fertility. That she’s even able to get these contraceptives would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: Rose has never heard about Roe v. Wade, bu