Sokari Ekine

Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian activist, blogger 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), ''SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa'' (2010), ''African Awakenings'' with Firoze Manji (2011), and ''Queer African Reader'' with Hakima Abbas (2013). Provided by Wikipedia