The Rise and Rise of PORN in Africa

There are wars waged in silence. There are battles fought behind smiling faces and perfect filters.

You see them every day.
At the dinner table. In the classroom. On the pulpit.
But they’re bleeding.

Not from wounds you can see…
But from screens. From pixels. From pleasures that promised escape but delivered chains.

This is not just about pornography.
It’s about a culture we’ve refused to confront.
A generation quietly being conditioned to disconnect love from sex, touch from tenderness, and commitment from pleasure.

I began studying Nigeria’s porn evolution in 2003 when not one local face had yet graced the online porn world.
Today, we compete with the American porn industry not in quality, but in volume, boldness, and youth participation. As a matter of fact there are new uploads almost every hour now with a viewership of 400k people within the first 5 hours(I want to believe the viewers are not spirits)

It began as curiosity but then came the lady called Afrocandy who was the only visible Nigerian way back Then came masked faces from Asaba who were the first sets of Nigerians to shoot porn but not bold enough to show their full identity.
By 2007, the masks fell off.
Porn became a performance.
Then an industry.
Then an ecosystem.
Girls were earning $100 per shoot.
And now… it’s a network marketing scheme for sexual commodification.

But the real heartbreak?
Our children are the largest consumers.

Ages 11 to 24.
That’s not just a statistic. That’s our sons and daughters.
That’s your niece. Your neighbor.
That’s a soul trying to find connection… but being handed destruction.

I remember a little girl just 8 years old brought to my office after opening over 60 porn sites on her iPad in one day.
She didn’t even know what “porn” meant.
A boy on the school bus whispered it into her ears.
And her innocence unraveled with a single search.

We’re not just fighting addiction.
We’re fighting a new definition of sex
Transactional, unfeeling, performative.
A world where women become holes,
And men become machines.

I speak this not just as a professional,
But as a man who went through it,
Who stared into that dark mirror during research,
And had to fight for my soul to return.

Because porn doesn’t just sell sex.
It sells distortion.
It scripts your desire.
And then rewrites your humanity.

Haven't you noticed that the average content creators across Africa including the conservative north with Sharia now shoots soft porn masked as content creation for monetization? Sex sells so bad that while they are pretending to be shooting content the sex scenes or the forceful shaking of dangling breasts makes you wonder what exactly was being sold......

This series is my cry to you…
To all of us.

We must wake up.
Before every bedroom becomes a movie set.
Before every relationship becomes a performance.
Before we raise children who can no longer feel.

We can fight this.
We can heal.
But we must first tell the truth.

Praise Fowowe
Family House Africa

To be continued…

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