Sokari Ekine

Details: Sokari Ekine, is a Nigerian social justice activist with a multidisciplinary background in education, technology, gender issues and human rights. She is particularly interested in the use of technology as a tool for social justice and human rights and has extensive experience of working with online media. Sokari has been involved with Kabissa for some 5 years, first as an advisor and more recently she worked as Community Coordinator in 2008. Prior to joining Kabissa, Sokari worked as Sub-Saharan Editor for Global Voices and more recently as Online Editor for Pambazuka News. Sokari is the founder and principle author of Black Looks, an award winning Pan African social justice blog covering a range of Africa related issues. She also created the African Women's Blog, an aggregator of blogs by African women across the continent and the Diaspora and has been involved with a number of gender based blogging initiatives. In addition to her own blog Black Looks, Sokari blogs weekly for the radical campaigning monthly journal, New Internationalist and is the Africa correspondent for PBS Media Shift. Sokari also writes the weekly blog review for Pambazuka News. http://www.kabissa.org/blog/54
Blog: http://www.blacklooks.org