PUBLIC DISCLAIMER AND OBJECTION TO THE UNAPPROVED MINUTES OF NIGERIAN...
THIS IS A PUBLIC DISCLAIMER BY YEMISI ILESANMI ON THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF NIGERIAN ATHEISTS GROUP HELD IN ABUJA, NIGERIA ON FEBRUARY 12 2012. THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING CONTAINS INACCURACIES AND...
View ArticleNigerian Atheists Group: Genesis and Revelation of its Patriarchal Tendencies!
How does one begin to address strong issues of great importance delicately? How does one point out to a fledgling organization that it does not practice what it seeks to preach to others without being...
View ArticleANALYSIS OF COMMENTS MADE BY TWO FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE GROUP ‘NIGERIAN...
This was first posted in June, 2012 on the Nigerian atheist group Facebook page, my Facebook notes and old blog and now published here for easy reference. My short stint with the Nigerian Atheists...
View ArticleNigerian Atheists Group: A story of Bigotry, Sexism and Patriarchy!
It has indeed been enlightening as well as fun anchoring, participating and watching on the Nigerian Atheists group page, the reality drama triggered by the controversial minutes of the first and only...
View ArticleNigerian atheist Mubarak Bala held hostage in a psychiatric ward for...
Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian and an atheist is being held hostage in a psychiatry ward at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria on the orders of his father Bala Mohammed. Mubarak’s father is a...
View ArticleRichardDawkins@Confused.Com: No one said you endorsed rape, what you did was...
Watching the downward spiral of Richard Dawkins from a respected scientist and atheist to a cringeworthy tweeter commentator is indeed saddening. The latest embarrassing and thoughtless tweets of the...
View ArticleOf Rape graders and Hero worship.
Richard Dawkins ill-informed attempt to grade rape triggered discussions and heated debates on the issue of rape. Sure enough, rape apologists and victim blamers used the opportunity to proudly show...
View ArticlePhysically attacked at an atheist event by a fellow ‘feminist’ atheist!
I always thought if I were ever to be attacked by someone I only knew from social media especially Facebook, it would be by a homophobe, biphobe, transphobe or a religious fanatic who didn’t like my...
View ArticleCreeps, creeps, creeps everywhere; Atheist movement sure has more than its...
An enlightening piece titled Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement? was recently published on buzzfeed by Mark Oppenheimer. It is a long read that exposes the sexist, misogynistic behaviour of...
View ArticleWhy I hate some supposedly wise sayings: Paradise points are not a reason to...
In my part of the world, every advice seems to be followed by some supposedly wise sayings. African societies have rich collections of very good proverbs, but those proverbs are being relegated to the...
View ArticleCalling Out Misogyny or Bullying is Not An Attack; It is a Social Duty!
There is this unfortunate trend in social media where calling out someone for their sexist, misogynist, and/or inhumane remarks is seen more as an invitation for a fight rather than an opportunity to...
View ArticleChapel Hill Shootings: Condemning religion does not an Islamophobe make,...
The gruesome murders of Deah Barakat, 23, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Razan Abu-Salha, 19, all Muslims, in the gun-toting hand of Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, an atheist, is appalling and a tragedy. I cannot...
View ArticleNo, Atheism is not a leap of faith or a descent into bigotry!
When a friend tagged me in an article in the Guardian titled, ‘My atheism does not make me superior to believers. It’s a leap of faith too”, by Ijeoma Oluo, I knew from the second part of the title not...
View ArticleWhy I identify as an Atheist : Secular Voices of Color
Below is my video contribution for ‘Secular Voices of Colour‘. As the project coordinator, Sincere Karibo stated– Secular Voices of Color is a unique opportunity to spread awareness of and focus on the...
View ArticleThe Terror attack on Muslims in London and the appalling Muslimphobes
On June 19, 2017, I woke up to the news that there had been a terror attack at Finsbury park Mosque, targeted against Muslims in London. I was shocked and appalled by the barbaric act. I posted on my...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson, the allegations and the women stars that never got to shine
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the sexual misconduct allegations is a sad reminder of why I hardly have heroes, especially men as heroes. Even when I have men who I would otherwise classify as heroes, it is...
View ArticleHo Ho Ho…Happy Secular Holiday!
Not everyone can have a happy holiday. It has been an especially sad year for some, with many young lives lost as the holidays approached. So many grieving mothers, grieving fathers, grieving children,...
View ArticleThe Murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu by Islamic fanatics.
On May 12, 2022, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a 200 level Home Economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto was lynched by her fellow students on allegation of committing Blasphemy....
View ArticleMeet the Atheist
I was interviewed by the Atheists Republic Cape Town on their ‘Meet the Atheists’ segment. Below is the full clip on their You Tube channel. Enjoy!
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