I wrote poetry about the President's mother's vagina ends up in prison

What should wives do with men who do not listen to them when they speak of gender equality? Let's catch them for nuts.

This is the radical suggestion offered by Ghanaian jailed feminist Stella Nyanzi.

“Vec if you capture and suppress it hard, otherwise they don't listen,” she said, wearing a traditional African guitar, red lips and an ironic laugh at the hearing session, translates from CNN, Periscope.

The academy, which had been in the women's prison in Luzira for eight months, is being tried on charges that “had used cyber harassment and insulting communication” after writing and posting a poem on Facebook.

Poetry, published last September, used graphic descriptions of the birth of the Ghanaian president and his mother's vagina to criticise “repression, opression and success of the country, which he has led in the past 30 years.

Niyanzi has been known among African academics and feminist circles for decades, but it is her provocative poetry for 74-year-old president that made the name known in the last year.

We're bringing in a translated adaptor from This poem:

Yower, [the president's name], they say it was your birthday yesterday.

What a sick day to throw up!

I would like the acid skunk that floods Esier's sick vaginal channel [the president's mother's name] to have made your unborn fetus sick.

To hurt you as badly as you've eroded all morality and professionalism from our public institutions in Uganda. /Periscope