Tominke Christine Olaniyan

Tominke Christine Olaniyan is Director of PADEAP (Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme) and co-founder of ILERA: Community Health Initiative.

As a Pan African Feminist, Tominke advocates for the right to quality education and healthcare for all, ending violence against women and girls and refugee rights including freedom of movement for all within the African continent, ‘From Cape Town to Cairo’.

Tominke’s research interests are centred in a pan African perspective focusing on forced migration, social determinants of health, global health equity and violence against women and girls. Within DEPA, Tominke seeks to implement pan African decolonial participatory action research methods working in partnership with refugee communities in Uganda on the photography-based photovoice method and storytelling through theatre for change with internally displaced people in Nigeria.