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Toyin Ajao
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Toyin Ajao (born 13 July 1978) is a Nigerian scholar, feminist activist, and healing researcher-practitioner whose work focuses on restorative healing, conflict transformation, and Afro-feminist approaches to social change.
I am letting this truth slowly marinate into my nervous system as I continue showing up in the world.
That I have what it takes to face the camera and not be fazed by it.
The heightened security problems in our country hinge on self-interest and communal disconnection, whereby we have forgotten our collective responsibility, communal accountability, reciprocity, and compassion
Toyin said this during an interview with punch newspaper
We are too polarised to embrace our collective humanity, and tap into our ancestral knowledge and wisdom to restore our sense of unity, dignity, mutual respect and integrity
Toyin said this during an interview with punch newspaper
If we don’t address these continued disconnections, warring, violence, chaos, and lack of concern for one another by healing ourselves, we will simply continue to sink deeper into the abyss of collective destruction.
Toyin said this during an interview with punch newspaper
I believe we are yet to heal from the colonial legacy, to channel our energy towards inter-dependency and communality.
Toyin said this during an interview with punch newspaper
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