<p><strong>Ayo Obe</strong> (née Ogunsola), legal practitioner, trustee of Senegal’s Gorée Institute, trustee of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group and a massive member of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign is incredibly modest about her epoch defining role in the shaping of Democracy (with a capital ‘D’) and Human Rights movements in modern day Nigeria.</p><p>Intelligent, lazy (lazy?) and efficient – her words - Ayo Obe’s CV is one many would envy. She has been President of the CLO (Nigeria’s first indigenous human rights organisation), been chair of the TMG (an election-monitoring/democracy-building coalition of independent NGOs), on the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy and Nigerian Civil Society’s panel on Police Reform, the list goes on.</p><br><p>In this episode, we discuss:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The fight for democracy, the funding and evolution of the Civil Liberties Organisation and the heroes of the day – Olisa, Abdul Oroh, Chidi Odinkalu …;</li><li>Bring Back Our Girls, End Sars, and no, Ayo doesn’t believe there was a massacre at toll gate;</li><li>Salvation Army, feast to famine (and back again), Tufnell Park to Seascale, the parent as Deus ex Machina. In there lies the moving tale – Nope, Ayo suffers no angst, thank you very much;</li><li>AWO, Gaza and famine as a weapon of war. Yes, heroes do sometimes have feet of clay;</li><li>Peter Tosh – Equal Rights, Down Pressor Man – Ayo CAN hold a tune;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>The back story, the present one, the continuing activism and, yes, the soft-spoken modesty; this episode is one for those of us with much to be modest about.</p><br><p><strong><em>Links</em></strong></p><br><p><a href="https://afroribooks.co.uk/products/americanah-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie?srsltid=AfmBOopUMZ4yClvOrHL1L40jJL9ZQJ43hOMeCs-VGeGMzAYDxdYT-Bdw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Americanah</em></strong></a><strong><em> – </em>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</strong></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/xlt-UsJcG8g?feature=shared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Down Pressor Man</em></strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="https://youtu.be/bOZQZAX4deM?feature=shared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Equal Rights</em></strong></a><strong><em> – </em>Peter Tosh</strong></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/BXCIJOfo6Mg?feature=shared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Stagger Lee</em></strong></a><strong> – Lloyd Price</strong></p><p>Sponsored by <a href="https://www.bananaislandschool.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bananaislandschool.com/</a></p><p><strong>Banana Island Living’s </strong><a href="http://www.instagram.com/bananaislandliving" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Instagram</strong></a></p><p><strong>Banana Island Living's</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/banana_living?s=08" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Twitter</strong></a></p><p><strong>Banana Island Living's YouTube channel: </strong><a href="https://youtu.be/yIS0FwNp1I8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>https://youtu.be/yIS0FwNp1I8</strong></a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
