The TV doctor and public health specialist in conversation with her mentor and sister-in-law, Dr Kofo Odusote.
![[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Womens-Series-3-1.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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The political activist was publicly flogged, had her hair shaved off with a broken bottle and was imprisoned 16 times.
![Hajiya Gambo Sawaba [The Makers of Northern Nigeria, published in 2004 by De lmam Ventures, Kaduna]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Gambo-Sawaba.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
After the killing of 20 protesters during a mining strike in Nigeria, Ekpo made her name as a feminist and activist.
![Nigerian politician and activist Margaret Ekpo [File: DRUM Magazine, Spectrum Books Limited]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Margaret-Ekpo.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The anti-colonial and feminist activist fought British colonialists, traditional rulers and the government.
![A photo of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti featured in Nigeria's The Daily Times newspaper on November 17, 1959 [File: The Daily Times]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mrs-Olufunmilayo-Ransome-Kuti-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)