Comments on: Blogger Profile: “Owukori”, aka Sokari Ekine

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:59:51 +0000

Hello Ms. Sokari!
I recently ran across your blog while exploring the internet. I am visiting friends here in the United States for vacation and would like to address your blog. I will soon return to Africa. I have read your background and your move on feminist issues. I must tell you that the opinion that you have concerning homosexuality is not the opinion of all Nigerian women or Nigerians period. We are NOT Homophobic and any reference to that is inaccurate.
Please stop attempting to force your belief systems on us. Your sexuality is a private issue and should remain so. We do not care to read or even listen to your biased arguments about homosexuality. Face reality and stop bowing to the almighty dollar for your survival…How could you attempt to assimilate in a culture who cares nothing about your survival? London, the United States,and Spain participated in the slavery of Africans years ago and forced their beliefs upon us. They have pillaged and abused us yet you continue to assimilate and ignore this. They do not love us only our resources. Homosexuality is not acceptable in our culture nor is it normal to live this way. It is an abomination to nature. How many times have you seen animals prefer to breed with each other of the same sex?
By the way, what God do you serve?

By: Tom Briggs

Tom Briggs — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:05:37 +0000

I am proud of sokari. Please continue in your struggle and do not relent. Remember Akaso the KALABARI WA-INGI is a woman. One day Justice shall prevail..

By: FUSTINA IKIRIKO

FUSTINA IKIRIKO — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:06:05 +0000

Hi,
I am touched by what sokari is doing for the people of the niger delta. I am also ijaw and happily kalabari[buguma]precisely.It a shame that our people are suffering untold hardship while the so called leaders continue to line their pockets with monies meant for the good of all.
If you ask me, i’d say NIGERIA is the most corrupt country in the world.The niger deltans are suffering in the midst of plenty! SOS!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:15:25 +0000

Hi Sokari,

You’ve flagged my blog on global voices a couple of times as being from South Africa. Actually I’m in Lesotho, which is similar in ways, but oh so different.

Thanks,
Paul

By: Almaz Mequanint

Almaz Mequanint — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:59:14 +0000

Dear Sir/Madame:

Please read the website below and be advised to inform the all NGO and the world about these neglected and helpless human beings. These victims their human rights are violated by the Ducth company, HVA International and are waiting to get their justice from the international community. The Ducth which their city is the Hague ironically the City of Peace and Justice, Unicef City in 2005/2006 and the home to over 150 international legal organisations are the human right violators of these poor and helpless victims. If they were Europeans long time they would have been in the headline news and they would have been treated as human beings to get justice. Please Do Something !

Thank you and God Bless!
Sincerely,
Almaz Mequanint

http://www.newint.org/issue363/dirty.htm

http://www.africanfront.com/2003-g.php

http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Individualcompanies/H/HVAInternational?&sort_on=sortable_title

http://www.tecolahagos.com/neglect.htm

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10287&fcategory_desc=Under+Reported

By: onyeka

onyeka — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:34:36 +0000

i hope to make a bigger blog one day peeps

By: Emmanuel Asomba

Emmanuel Asomba — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:58:45 +0000

A very interesting interview, I just happened to bump into it. It is quite a late comment on my side, but the richness of the interview, and mostly the depth of some women’s issues and rights in Africa as detailed by “Owukori” have nurtured some thinking about the process of democratization vis-à-vis technology expansion, and the role of women, as agents for change, and societal evolution.

Cheers — – Emmanuel

By: Orikinla Osinachi

Orikinla Osinachi — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:12:47 +0000

Sokari, if you were my sister, I would have scolded you for overworking yourself. Sometimes, I doubt if you are really a woman. Even, if you were a man, you would still be scolded for overworking yourself.

Your blog Black Looks is like a tutorial in blogging for me.
And you have been doing so much with so little.

Most of our women in Nigeria have given up. They just want a degree to get a good job, marry, have children and die and get a decent burial in Ikoyi cemetary. That is also the greatest ambition of most of the men. Nation-building is not their priority. And no wonder Nigeria is still groping among the poorest nations in the world with all the billions of dollars we make every year from crude oil and LNG. Because, majority of Nigerians are just happy with a fat salary and that’s all.

I was once the coordinator of 250 NGOs in Nigeria for the World AIDS Day in 1993 and working for the UNICEF and American NGOs all over Nigeria showed me so many things about our people and why if we don’t address the fundamental issues of human capital development and socio-political empowerment for nation-building, Nigeria will remain the same corrupt and poor nation in the next 100 years.

You have to come and organize a seminar on Information Technology for human development and empowerment in selected Nigerian universities and at the Lagos Business School.

I have seen Nigerian university graduates who have never heard of the word “Web log” talkless of blogging. One of them who is an attorney was more interested in rubbing shoulders with me than in learning how to blog and she has not added anymore word to the one I created for her since my last visit two months ago.

They hardly read newspapers offline or online and they hardly read books. They prefer to gossip about the news from the gossip newspapers and read pornographic magazines and romance novels.

Dr. Dora Akunyili should inspire them. But, they think she is too strict.

Well done. I have always been proud of you even before I read this interview.

By: Owukori

Owukori — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:15:42 +0000

Omoleye – thanks for your comment which is very much appreicated. I am from Kalabari which is Ijaw (Rivers State) not from Calabar which is different and in Cross River. Stay blessed Sokari

By: omoleye gbenga

omoleye gbenga — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:07:23 +0000

hello nice interview, a true trail blazzer. for been a woman, ma u knock me out.keep up with the good work naija women needs a voice. am from the south west, but why should u spell calabar as kalabar.

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By: ezuckerman

ezuckerman — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:03:08 +0000

Hmm, anonymous, I re-read my intro and pretty sure I didn’t put London south of Madrid.

I did check Wikipedia quite extensively in writing this article, though. It was interesting to note that there are no articles on the Niger Delta, the Ogoni struggle or Ken Saro Wiwa. Hope to do something about that soon…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:17:34 +0000

I’d recommend a visit to wikipedia. Almeria, actually, is south of Madrid but London, actually, is north of Madrid. I find this information quite disinformative (at least geographycally speaking).

Almeria is in the southern coast of Spain, in Andalucia.