Bukola Oriola

Bukola Oriola (Bukola Oriola (born 1976) is a Nigerian-American journalist. She lives in Anoka County, Minnesota, and has a son named Samuel Jacobs. She spent six years as a journalist covering education in Nigeria while still living in that country. she is also an activist against human trafficking.

Quotes

• Now I know the signs of an abuser and a trafficker. If I had known the signs, I wouldn’t have fallen a victim or stayed in slavery for two years.
  • [1] Bukola Oriola talking about Human trafficking in an interview.

• I believe that helping the youth in the community identify their potential with helping them to maximize such potential in their own local community.
  • [2] Bukola Oriola talking about being careful as a youth in a New Country.

• She found her fellow survivors, “energetic, intelligent, resilient, and very engaging. Meeting them felt like meeting missing or separated siblings. We all connected because we had all survived one form of torture or the other as a result of various forms of human trafficking.”
  • [3] Bukola Oriola talking about Human trafficking in an interview.

• “As a victim of labor trafficking, I have survived all odds in an unknown land to be able to lend a voice to the voiceless, advocate for other victims, and empower survivors.”
  • [4] Bukola talks about herself

• People need to know that being abroad does not necessarily mean greener pastures, but she explained. It could be a potential trap to human trafficking or domestic abuse.
  • [5]Bukola Oriola talks about human trafficking and domestic violence on new immigrants

• People need to know that being abroad does not necessarily mean greener pastures…It could be a potential trap to human trafficking or domestic abuse.
  • [6] Bukola Oriola talking about human trafficking in an interview

• Every community has its own challenges, but when people are able to see the potentials they have, it makes the problem of economic hardship to be half solved.
  • [7] Bukola Oriola talking about human trafficking in an interview

• I am grateful to God for life.
  • [8] Bukola Oriola talking about human trafficking

• I believe that education is the greatest tool for preventing this heinous crime in our communities.
  • [9] Bukola Oriola speaking on possible ways to solve the problem of human trafficking.

• The thing is the wound is inside and it is hard to heal. I’m tearing up not because I’m sad but because it’s always an open wound that is there. You heal through the process but it’s not a healing that happens once.
  • [10] Bukola talking in an interview about her experience as a victim of human trafficking.

• It was a situation of a slave at the beck and call of her master. It could be described as the Israelites in the hands of Pharaohs and the Egyptians,”
  • [11] Bukola wrote on her experience in her book, titled Imprisoned: The Travails of a Trafficked Victim (2016)