In 2016, Ijeoma Ndukwe, a recent university graduate in southeastern Nigeria, launched an unusual social enterprise: a website where Nigerians could anonymously post their rape stories that pooled data on the locations of the often unnamed perpetrators.
Ndukwe wasn’t sure it would work. As elsewhere, sexual assault is notoriously underreported in Nigeria. But to date, both women and men have shared more than 200 accounts of assault on the site, the Share Anonymous Initiative. The majority of the survivors know their rapists. Ndukwe, herself a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, observed the community backlash that many in Nigeria face when speaking out about rape.
