“When You Grow Up, I Will Marry You”: The Ghanaian MP’s Comment and How We Normalised the Sexualisation of African Girls
Hon. Yakubu Mohammed, 37-year-old Member of Parliament for Ahafo Ano South East, was addressing a group of primary school pupils visiting Parliament House in Ghana. These were children on a school excursion, young girls and boys brought to their country’s legislature to learn about governance, to see democracy in practice, to imagine what their futures […]