Ej Dike Clement Akomolafe

<p>If anyone ever disturbed the convenient boundaries of racial and national identity, it would be &lsquo;Ej&rsquo;. A prolific author, speaker, lecturer, Doctor of Applied Biology and Biotechnology at Covenant University, Nigeria, and a member of the newly constituted Global Cooperative Forum, Ej is of Indian, Iranian, English and African descent.</p> <p>Ej was born in Chennai in 1984, and obtained most of her education in the city. After graduating summa cum laude from the Women&rsquo;s Christian College, Chennai, Ej proceeded to seek a doctorate degree in one of Nigeria&rsquo;s most prestigious universities, Covenant University, where she now lectures. For her PhD work, Ej focused ambitiously on discovering new antimalarial compounds in previously untested indigenous plants and their associated therapies. It was during this time that she experienced a seismic shift in her perceptual framework &ndash; a profound challenge to her previously hegemonic assumptions about the way the world works. She started to grow increasingly suspicious of the biomedical industry and drug production praxis; she questioned whether health and wellbeing were truly the end results of her labours in the laboratory. Her new paradigm-altering questions inspired further investigations into some of the hidden assumptions that have shaped her experiences, hopes and expectations as an educator, a scientist and a social innovator.</p> <p>At the moment, Ej is no longer comfortable with being called a &lsquo;biotechnologist&rsquo;; her desire to explore disenfranchised learning contexts external to institutionalized public schooling, and &lsquo;protect&rsquo; indigenous ways of knowing and healing from the exploitative dynamics of the academic-consumerist-industrial complex moved her to co-imagine a trans-local platform for social emancipatory practices &ndash; called Koru.</p> <p>Now married to a Nigerian, Ej is most proud of her small moments, her dreamy garden wedding a year ago, her burgeoning backyard garden, the opportunities to relate with her students in subversively empowering ways, and the shared vision to transit from her lifestyle of independence to sacred interdependence and local community. She co-designed the Dreamscape game and the Dreamweavers&rsquo; Network with her husband, Bayo, is currently co-writing a number of books, and is conceptualizing a new social network devoted to radical food sharing and organic farming at local platforms. She calls this movement &lsquo;Singing Seeds&rsquo;. She loves traveling, and speaks French, Tamil, and three other Indian languages.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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