Tayo Agunbiade

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.