Femmolution is a female movement coined from the two words ‘femme’ which is French for woman and evolution. It is a call for the evolution of the woman. Femmolution is all feminist; this is a gender that, in Africa, has sparked up uncomfortable conversations that need to be held and has for centuries positioned the woman as oppressed and pushed down. Both men and women avoid the gender topic because we are brought up to believe that both genders have their specific roles to play and the woman’s role is always is at home or inferior to men in the workplace.

As females, to be taken seriously, we should tone down our femininity and a true female must be girly, love makeup, dresses and high heels. Why can’t we be both? Why can’t we love politics, sciences and run businesses and still love our high heels and adorn our curves? As one of our role models Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi so aptly put it, “We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful; otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him.”