The documentary takes a deep dive into the lives of real life people with striking similarities to those we see on screen.
It’s 2018, the year of #Metoo and #NeverAgain. It’s
safe to say this generation has never been more woke and this year,
thanks to social media and women having the courage to speak out, more
attention has been drawn to sexual misconduct and bad sexual practices.
However,
while the whole world has been sitting up and taking note of how women
are being abused, Nigeria is still somewhat behind in joining this
advocacy bandwagon.
This isn’t because we
don’t tweet or talk about the issue, it’s mostly because we don’t shine
the beamlight enough on our own stories of sexual abuse.All that is about to change when MTV Shuga IRL airs on the 24th & 27th of May.
The
documentary takes a deep dive into the lives of real life people with
striking similarities to those we see on screen. The 30 minute special
will chronicle the lives of these real individuals as they go through
the struggles portrayed in the hit series.
Now
this is huge for a lot of reasons. This generation may have access to
more information than ever before and this has definitely translated to
more awareness on subjects relating to sex, rape and consent.
However,
very little has changed in behavioural pattern, people are still
getting raped on a daily, guys still can’t tell when no means no and
young people are still having unprotected sex without a care in the
world.
In my opinion, I feel this is partly a case
of too much being done around “telling” and very little about
“showing”. A lot is being said about sex, rape and consent but not
enough is being shown about it for people to really grasp the
seriousness of these issues.
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