Growing up religious, this 29-year-old Nigerian woman assumed she was straight, but several toxic relationships (and situation-ships) later, she’s exploring dating her gender. From the inconsistent cultist to the insecure dog beater, she shares the hetero-experiences that led her to this shift on this week’s What She Said.

The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 26-year-old Nigerian woman who shares a nostalgic story behind how her book obsession started, why she thinks romance novels ruined her love life and her journey to collecting all her favourite classics, one book at a time.

The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 26-year-old Nigerian woman who struggles to reconcile her faith with her sexuality. How does she approach women in a homophobic Nigeria or tell her loving but religious mother she's a lesbian? Easy, she doesn’t. Here’s this week’s #ZikokoWhatSheSaid:

Her first husband called her “The most beautiful girl in Nigeria”, love-bombing her before making her his third wife then only interacting with her for sex. She was 19; he was 39. By 22, she had two children she couldn’t tell her second husband about.  Now, she’s alone in Canada with her third and last child. Here’s what the 29-year-old said:

This week’s #ZikokoWhatSheSaid subject is a 31-year-old Nigerian woman who has seen shege as a teacher trying to make a change.

This week’s #ZikokoWhatSheSaid subject is a 68-year-old Nigerian woman with a thyroid disorder that imitates clinical depression. She tells us how her health struggles have given her a strangely positive outlook on life after a decade of numbness.

“We’ve tried everything from drug supplements and “womb massages” where traditional women basically pound your lower stomach like yam, all in the name of rearranging your womb.” What does finding it hard to conceive feel like? We asked seven women.

This week’s #ZikokoWhatSheSaid subject is a 36-year-old Nigerian woman. She talks about learning to save while jumping molue as a teenager, her experiences with sugar daddies and her rocky path to financial independence.

The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 32-year-old Nigerian woman who grew up resenting her mother for marrying and divorcing three times. Now that she’s older, a feminist and has been divorced once, she says she understands.

This week's What She Said features a woman who is married but currently moonlights as a sugar mummy.