Pélémo Ava Nyajo

JUST RELAX is here and it’s yours!🥹🩷 We’ve had a very complicated relationship with our hair for centuries, this piece calls us back to ‘core,’ to ‘root,’ and I hope it means something to you too.🩷 Thank YOU to everyone that made this happen, I love you with all my heart!🩷🥺 Crew: Creative Director- Pelemo Nyajo Asst Creative Director- @nana.yakubu_ Producer- Pelemo Nyajo DOP/Cinematographer- @nana.yakubu_ Editor- @nana.yakubu_ Poem written and voiced by- Pelemo Nyajo BTS: @big_kes_ Soundtrack: Coniferous Forest by Orangery Music (Pixabay License) Cast: Mojoyinade Adegoroye @m.j.a.a.y Deborah Johnson @debi_xson Victoria Okwujia @victoriaokwujia Pelemo Nyajo Special thanks to: Deborah for making this happen and to @ekondolife for sharing their beautiful space with us🥹🩷 - Video description: a poetry short film about hair with different scenes showing abstract scenes with hair.

All these essentials will be at our Craft Party, all that’s left is you!🥰 We’re creating A Very Good Day for persons with and without disabilities this 24th of May. Time: 3pm We absolutely cannot wait! Are there any other essentials that should be on the list? Tell us!🩷 Video Description: A video collage that starts with: Craft Party Essentials. It’s a video of different crafting items, with an end saying “and you.” #CraftParty #AVeryGoodDay #MBW

What does A Very Good Day look like to you? This month, we’re unplugging from the capitalist machine for a second and making space for what matters to us and we want you all up in here!🫵🏿🩷 We will be scrapbooking, journaling and playing, to connect to what really matters beyond the stereotypical definition of productive or successful. Come craft with us!🫟 Date: 24th May 2026 Time: 3pm Location: Will be disclosed to you after registration🫶🏿 Register here: https://forms.gle/fYYFvdBAdpBCy2jX9 or through the link in our bio! :)

Nostalgia is hiding in the creeks, but look who we’ve become.🪻

I remember when I first realized I was disabled and I tried to find stories of others like me… they weren’t very easy to find. I wondered where our stories were. I’ve always grappled with belonging, and oftentimes I’m still the only one that looks like me in certain rooms. As part of @mowaaofficial listening sessions, I created something experimental to talk about this.🩷 Shoutout to @madjamieforever for supporting me with this.🫶🏿 You can engage with my work and the work of some of the other beautiful artists here, as we explore what a museum can be: /listening-sessions

I feel like a little child every time we hold space for people through Movement Beyond Walls, because it’s truly a safe space. It’s so beautiful to hear people say they feel the same way and even better: heard, held, seen. Persons with and without disabilities can connect truly and we can co-create a more accessible and human world.🩷 Super duper grateful to my team and friends who volunteered and continue to show up. Super duper grateful to the facilitators who gave us this beautiful experience and to the people who participated and gave their souls in the most true way. We will continue to do this, we won’t stop. So much love for you all. Thank you, thank you!🥹🩷 Thank you for the support to make this happen @gymobilization Video description: a collection of wholesome videos from Our Accessible World by @movementbeyondwalls_ #movementbeyondwalls #ouraccessibleworld #oaw2026

Tomorrow, we’re Out On A Limb for disability inclusion.🩷 Walk with us: http://bit.ly/ooal2026 #OOAL2026 #NoLimitsJustMotion

Pelemo Nyajo is an artist known for her radical and honest approach towards social development, especially advancing the rights of women and girls with disabilities. Her experience working in roles like being a youth advisor with the Dutch Embassy, a member of the board of trustees of Plan International Nigeria, a poet and young influencer with UNICEF has shaped her understanding of advocacy and fueled her love for advocacy. She has interacted deeply with social issues like exclusion from education, discrimination and stigma as a person with a disability and that has shaped her passion using poetry as a conduit for expression and social action. She is a global young influencer with Plan International, a 2 time Ted speaker, a Youth Day Spotlight awardee by NGYouthSDGs and Oxfam, an awardee of the EU-Youth Empowerment Fund, as well as the British Council Unlimited Micro Awards. She has also won the Yiaga Africa Grant for Art for Democracy. She mainstreams disability inclusion and advocacy through her initiative: Movement Beyond Walls, where she closes the gap between persons with and without disabilities through informal education, and re-engineers culture and socialization towards more acceptance for diversity, advancing towards love and inclusion for all people. Catch Pelemo Nyajo live at Pushin Pee. Ticket Link in bio or DM for tickets. #pushinpeenaija #worldpoetryday #abujacreatives #abujacreativecommunity #abujaevents

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 🚺 This year's theme is Rights. Justice. Action - For ALL Women and Girls, and Plan International’s Global Young Influencers are standing up and saying #WeObject to child marriage‼️ Hear what they have to say 👆🏻and join them in solidarity via the link in our bio 🔗 #EndChildMarriage #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay2026 #ForAllWomenAndGirls #GenderEquality #GirlsRights

Jan 2026, with a likkle sprinkle of Dec 2025🩷

We have this one little life with the people we love, Fear doesn’t have a name here. I’ll never forget your love, thank you🥹🩷 Ps: my friends take the cutest pictures in this entire world.

What a soft, magical day🩷 What can I say, but thank you?🌸