The TV doctor and public health specialist in conversation with her mentor and sister-in-law, Dr Kofo Odusote.
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Tayo Agunbiade is a writer, researcher and gender data analyst based in Abuja, Nigeria. She recently authored a book titled Emerging from the Marg... ins: Women’s Experiences in Colonial and Contemporary Nigerian History.
The TV doctor and public health specialist in conversation with her mentor and sister-in-law, Dr Kofo Odusote.
The political activist was publicly flogged, had her hair shaved off with a broken bottle and was imprisoned 16 times.
After the killing of 20 protesters during a mining strike in Nigeria, Ekpo made her name as a feminist and activist.
The anti-colonial and feminist activist fought British colonialists, traditional rulers and the government.