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Sokari Ekine

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• ... that Nigerian activist Sokari Ekine has been a blogger, a journalist, an author and a teacher? Sokari Ekine is a feminist writer, blogger, and educator ... has written for various online and print publications, including Pambazuka News, Feminist Africa and New Internationalist ... In 2010, she edited SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa and in 2011 she co-edited African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions. She is co-editor of the Queer African Reader to be published in April 2013. Ekine is presently working with Growing Haiti and teaching English to high school students in Port-au-Prince. [

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rosemary Biggs

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 21:21, 8 November 2017 (UTC).

Willing to review this, but not right now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Interesting life on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I think the hook is too general. The name of the blog "Black Looks" would tell a bit more, and/or "Queer African Reader". Say something that can't be said about a few hundred others, please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:04, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Gerda Arendt thanks for the review. I was struggling to find anything really "hookable". I have added a little to the article. How about:

• ... that Nigerian activist and blogger Sokari Ekine's first venture online was to found the Black Sisters Network mailing list in 1995?

I think it is unusual to have been involved with the internet that early? If not let me know and I can try something else - Dumelow (talk) 14:12, 21 November 2017 (UTC)