Sex for grade. Repoter Kiki Mordi, a 28 year old woman who was unable to c...

Sex for grade. Repoter Kiki Mordi, a 28 year old woman who was unable to complete her studies due to her professor’s sexual advances, leads viewers through the dark tale of abuse and power imbalance that has been occurring Abstract Sex for grades a global health concern growing at an alarming rate. A Nigerian lecturer was also suspended after it was broadcast in October. It involves asking for sex in exchange for high grades usually without getting the consent of the victims by perpetrators. On October 8, 2019 the BBC Africa Eye released a 54-minute documentary, titled Sex for Grades, exposing male professors at two West African universities—University of Lagos in Nigeria (UNILAG) and The BBC Africa Eye documentary, Sex for Grades, takes an in-depth look at the long-standing problem of sexual harassment by lecturers and professors in universities in Nigeria and Ghana. By utilising a governmental approach, it explores how knowledges of gender, sex and power in academia may be (re)produced and distributed, suggesting that students and lecturers hold multiple and complex subjectivities, guided and managed into understanding sex for grades in diverse, contradictory ways. Perpetrators are usually allowed to go scot free; victims are forced to be quiet as if nothing happened in what is called culture of silence, while the victims suffer several traumatic experiences . Both deny the allegations made last year in BBC Africa Eye's sex-for-grades documentary. Allegations include a wide array of abuses, from blackmailing students for sex in exchange for marks and admission to lewd comments and grooming. Professors at prominent universities in Ghana and Nigeria were caught on camera by the BBC asking their students for sexual favors. nsvztm xjzailub pwrjar vwjpp qczdhcv qhmtunk ocnh tnhgklq tqrvpr fqob