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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…

10 min readMar 30, 2023

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I Showed Up!

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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…

13 min readFeb 23, 2021

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Choose Who You Want to Be — Jemilea Wisdom-Baako

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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…

12 min readJan 22, 2021

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From a Mountain to a Flower

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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…

12 min readDec 22, 2020

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

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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…

13 min readNov 28, 2020

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Joy as Armour

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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.

12 min readOct 22, 2020

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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”…

11 min readAug 22, 2020

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

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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…

12 min readJun 22, 2020

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Sometimes You Just Need to Jump

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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…

11 min readMay 22, 2020

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May I Never Be A Slave To Speed

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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…

10 min readApr 22, 2020

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

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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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