Surviving Domestic Violence: In Relation to Laws on Protection in Nigeria

The author describes how she made sense of , and understood her own experience of domestic violence in Nigeria. In doing so, she transformed her realisations into social struggle and advocacy against barriers of access to justice, harmful traditional practices, societal expectations.

-Prof Mando Rachovista, University of Groningen

LOUISA ONOHMEN EIKHOMUN-AGBONKHESE is the fourth of seven daughters by Engr. Isabu Barnabas and Grace Omis Eikhomun of Ugboha, Esan South East in Edo State, being a girl child, she experienced discrimination and abuse in her formative years. Louisa became involved in human rights work in 2004 after experiencing domestic violence. After full recovery, she now engages from the grassroots, to national regional and international levels on human rights, gender justice and women empowerment.

In this book, she shares her personal experience of being a woman who rose from vulnerability to strength; from being a victim of domestic violence to a survivor, and is now thriving and giving back to other victims and survivors. With unerring sincerity, she brings to the reader salient unvoiced issues on Domestic Violence in the Nigerian society, exposing the prime causes to the forms of Domestic Violence and proffering solutions. Louisa also involves all players from parents, in-laws, religions, government and non-governmental organizations as critical stakeholders to end the scourge.

Surviving Domestic Violence: In Relation to Laws on Protection in Nigeria is a rich source of reference for researchers.