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Tolu Agbelusi

Tolu Agbelusi

I Showed Up!

I met Florence Kollie Raja by chance, over a conversation about rice water and Black hair, on a sunny afternoon in pandemic June 2020. We…

Mar 30, 2023

I Showed Up!

Mar 30, 2023

Tolu Agbelusi

Choose Who You Want to Be — Jemilea Wisdom-Baako

Jemilea Wisdom-Baako is compassion personified. Moving almost in silence she is relentless at carving out avenues for people to thrive…

Feb 23, 2021

Choose Who You Want to Be — Jemilea Wisdom-Baako

Feb 23, 2021

Tolu Agbelusi

From a Mountain to a Flower

Gaylene Gould is a Creative Director, broadcaster, writer and former Head of Cinemas at BFI Southbank . That’s one way to start this…

Jan 22, 2021

From a Mountain to a Flower

Jan 22, 2021

Tolu Agbelusi

Why Be a Repressed Human Being When You Can Be Free?

What better way to end a year of explorations on feminine strength, than with where it all begins for me. Iyabo Agbelusi is a teacher…

Dec 22, 2020

Why Be a Repressed Human Being When You Can Be Free?

Dec 22, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi

Joy as Armour

Swarzy Macaly is a professional joy infuser. You may also know her as a radio and TV host, an activist and a cultural curator. The day…

Nov 28, 2020

Joy as Armour

Nov 28, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi

Everything That Has Tried to Kill Me Has Failed

vangi gantsho is a poet, healer, publisher, cultural activist, curator, co-founder of impepho press, and mother.

Oct 22, 2020

Everything That Has Tried to Kill Me Has Failed

Oct 22, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi

You Don’t Always Have To Be Strong To Be A Strong Woman — Ruth Shah-Wigley

Twenty years ago, on the first day of university, I walked into one of my seminars and saw blurted out, “Thank God! Another Black person”…

Aug 22, 2020

You Don’t Always Have To Be Strong To Be A Strong Woman — Ruth Shah-Wigley

Aug 22, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi

Sometimes You Just Need to Jump

Stephanie Edwards is an Architect, a mentor, a template for the kind of friend you want in your corner, and a co-founder of Urban…

Jun 22, 2020

Sometimes You Just Need to Jump

Jun 22, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi

May I Never Be A Slave To Speed

Tjawangwa Dema (hereinafter “TJ”) is a force — the best kind. When the trifecta of her words, presence and wit hit you, being spellbound…

May 22, 2020

May I Never Be A Slave To Speed

May 22, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi

Remember the Lessons. Don’t Waste the Pain — Ozoz Sokoh

Ozoz Sokoh, also known as Kitchen Butterfly, is modestly described in her bio as a Nigerian Food Explorer. That title functions like a…

Apr 22, 2020

Remember the Lessons. Don’t Waste the Pain — Ozoz Sokoh

Apr 22, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi

Tolu Agbelusi

Nigerian British poet, playwright, producer, educator and lawyer, I write stories that focus on the unperformed self, Blackness and womanhood.

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