[7] Ekine lived in the United States for a number of years before returning to the UK, where she found work as a further education lecturer.

[10] She has written of the struggles of women against state forces and oil companies in the militarised and environmentally damaged Niger Delta.

[13] In 2003 she was awarded an International Reporting Project fellowship from Johns Hopkins University and commissioned to write on health care in the country.

[4] In 2016, Ekine began working on a photographic narrative entitled Spirit Desire: Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun.

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