The castigation of these beauty standards and call for their abandonment started when our culture embraced Christianity but it is time to honour them again. Make fashion statements with your waistbeads, wear intricate Uli designs on your skin and adorn your hair with ornaments.

Please fill our Volunteer Registration Form and join our WhatsApp Community via this link: docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/1T… We provide more information and updates on the group. Thank you!

Music has always been a crucial component of the Igbo culture, and women passed on traditions through folklore; it was a primary method of education before the colonial era. Our woman of the week is Queen Theresa Onuorah, legendary highlife musician and dancer. Do you know her?

Ugomma literally translates to "beautiful eagle", it's a name that proclaims and celebrates the beauty and elegance of the child who bears it. It was popular in the precolonial Igbo society and is one of the names that we would like to make a comeback. Do you know any Ugomma?

We reached out to several schools for our school outreach program and received our first approval a few days ago. So now, we are budgeting and putting plans are in motion to speak with the girls about pride in their heritage and about feminism in the Igbo society. Yagazie 🪴

Title - Ọmụ Dedicated to HRH Ọmụ Onyebuchie Okonkwo - Ọmụ of Obio

Nnoo na onwa ohuru! ✨ Yagaziere anyi niile 🪴

Did you know about Genevieve Nnaji's song about DV and survival titled "No More"? Over a lively mix of trumpets and bass-heavy strings, she sings about breaking free from a harmful relationship and vows to focus only on moving forward. Watch here: youtu.be/6d9YC24mK7k?si…

The name Nwando, derived from the saying "Nwabundo", means "a child is shelter". It can also be interpreted as "child is a blessing," "child is a protection," or "child is a gift". The name signifies that a child provides comfort, protection and a sense of security to the family.

Ada anyị ♥️♥️♥️

Budget for everything we will need for Ginikanwanyi's first school outreach is almost 200k. So we started reaching out to women who had pledged financial support earlier when we first launched and would you believe almost all have redeemed their pledges? Oh my god!

Our website is live! Did you know? Please, go take a look. Still a work in progress but it's amazing what we've done with it so far, and we're so proud! ginikanwanyi.com