Tokunbo Esho

Walk in my Shoes Tokunbo Esho

Many women often feel isolated by their everyday experiences. The notion that people rarely understand the pain, joy, triumph, hope and love behind some of these experiences is not far-fetched. This book aims to provide the next best approach to humanising the sometimes untold stories of women, by allowing them to tell their stories, take back their power, find healing, kinship, joy and triumph in these experiences.

The stories are true, the characters are familiar, the actions are relatable - and yet the devastation caused is almost unimaginable because we rarely see ourselves as villains, just unfortunate accomplices with good intentions. This book therefore, is an attempt at understanding that actions and even inaction have consequences, that the power of thoughtlessness can ruin lives, and that the cycle of intolerance can only be broken through measured and deliberate action to be better and do better.

Our protagonists are not victims but survivors who have lived and are living through hardships that might sometimes be of their own making, but are almost always exacerbated by a society that only knows how to pay lip-service to ideals like tolerance, empathy and oneness.