Sokari Ekine

Sokari Ekine
Alma materUCL Institute of Education
Occupation(s)Activist, blogger, author,lecturer
Known forWomen's rights, LGBTI rights and environmental campaigns
Websitesokariekine.me

Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian activist,[1] blogger[2][3] and author. She worked as a journalist at the Pambazuka News and has also written for Feminist Africa and New Internationalist. Ekine kept a blog between 2004 and 2014 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 English to school children in Haiti.

Ekine has edited the books Blood and Oil: Testimonies of Violence from Women of the Niger Delta (2001),[4] SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa (2010),[5] African Awakenings with Firoze Manji (2011), and Queer African Reader with Hakima Abbas (2013).

  1. ^ Herringer, Mark (1 August 2013). "Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  2. ^ Ford, Liz (2 April 2009). "Bloggers seek to influence G20 on development". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  3. ^ "Found in translation". The Guardian. 12 December 2005. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  4. ^ Vidal, John; Branigan, Tania (22 July 2002). "Nigerian women take on ChevronTexaco". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  5. ^ Perkins, Anne (3 February 2010). "Preparing for a mobile phone uprising in Africa". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-21.