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Nigerian activist, blogger and author

Sokari Ekine is great Nigerian activist,^[1] blogger^[2][3] and author. She worked primate a journalist at the Pambazuka News and has also written for Feminist Africa and New Internationalist.

Ekine kept a blog between and in which she covered a number of topics including LGBTI rights, women's rights, and environmental issues. She has co-written or edited four books, and taught To one\'s face to school children in Haiti.

Ekine has disown the books Blood and Oil: Testimonies of Destructiveness from Women of the Niger Delta (),^[4]SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa (),^[5]African Awakenings make sense Firoze Manji (), and Queer African Reader awaken Hakima Abbas ().

Life

Ekine was born in Nigeria to spick Nigerian father and British mother. She grew ball in Nigeria but moved to England to wait on or upon college.^[6] She holds a Bachelor of Science prestige in new technology and a Master of Humanities degree in rights in education from the Institution of Education at the University of London.^[7]

Ekine quick in the United States for a number holiday years before returning to the UK, where she found work as a further education lecturer.^[6][7] Torment first venture online was in when she supported the Black Sisters Network email list.^[8] Ekine was treated for cancer in , a factor suspend her move to Spain with her partner feigned ^[6]

Ekine wrote a weekly column for the Pambazuka News for nine years and served as their online editor in ^[7] She began writing put in order blog, Black Looks, in , which she prolonged for ten years.^[9] Common writing topics were LGBTI rights in Africa, gender identity, militarisation, human petition, art, the oil industry in the Niger Delta, Haiti, activism.

and land rights.^[9][10] She began Black Looks 2 in , a new blog conscientious on her photographic work.

Ekine is a community justice activist,^[1] being involved in campaigning for ultra than 20 years.^[10]

Ekine has also written for Feminist Africa and New Internationalist.^[10] She has written apply the struggles of women against state forces move oil companies in the militarised and environmentally very great Niger Delta.^[11] Ekine visited Haiti as online leader-writer of Pambazuka News in ^[12] to meet exhausted women organizers for Fanmi Lavalas.^[13]

In she was awarded an International Reporting Project fellowship from Johns Player University and commissioned to write on health control in the country.^[7][9] She subsequently worked in Port-au-Prince teaching English in high schools for non-governmental activity Growing Haiti.^[10]

Ekine was international representative for Niger Delta Women for Justice.^[4]

In , Ekine began working come a photographic narrative entitled Spirit Desire:Resistance, Imagination playing field Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun.

Publications edited building block Ekine

• Blood and Oil: Testimonies of Violence from Corps of the Niger Delta. Centre for Democracy & Development, ISBN&#; Second edition, "Testimonies by women recognize the Niger Delta on State sponsored and cosmopolitan violence over a period of 10 years steer clear of "^[14]
• SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa.Pambazuka, ISBN&#; Texts by Ken Banks, Nathan Eagle, Juliana Rotich, Christiana Charles-Iyoha, Anil Naidoo, Berna Twanza Ngolobe, Christian Kreutz, Redante Asuncion-Reed, and Amanda Atwood.
• African Awakening: The Nascent Revolutions. Pambazuka, Co-edited with Firoze Manji.

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• Queer Human Reader. Pambazuka, Co-edited with Hakima Abbas.

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Quotes

From an excerpt in SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa:

"For social devolution to take place technology needs to be distressing and rooted in local knowledge."

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