It’s a big task. But if anyone is up to it, it’s Akiwowo. After running in her council elections at 21, she stood down earlier this year aged 26. “It was blind stubbornness that allowed me to go for it,” she recalls. “I probably didn’t realise what I was getting myself in for… I thought, why not? Why shouldn’t I be able to stand for my community?”

She stood down because she wanted to spend the next four years tackling a new challenge. “I didn’t want to get stuck in party politics,” she adds. “I wanted to be able to make a difference in other ways.”

Her first mission? “Getting people to unlearn this behaviour that we have to tolerate these things online. We don’t.”

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