Sokari Ekine | |
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Alma mater | UCL Institute of Education |
Occupation(s) | Activist, blogger, author,lecturer |
Known for | Women's rights, LGBTI rights and environmental campaigns |
Website | sokariekine |
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).