Dr. Toyin Ajao
Dr. Toyin Ajao, known as Moon Goddess, Gypsy Oriṣa and Dr Witch, engages with the world as a public scholar, Afro-feminist activist and an interdisciplinary researcher-practitioner. She is the Director and Restorative Healing Researcher and Practitioner at Ìmọ́lẹ̀ of Afrika Centre ( ìAfrika), a Wholistic Wellbeing Consultant at Moon Goddess Consults and a Research Associate of the African Leadership Centre (ALC), King’s College London. Her work intersects with intergenerational healing, economic justice, environmental regeneration, posthuman security,healing justice, conflict transformation, systems change, and visionary/intersectional feminism.
Through what she calls the school of life, she is in a limitless, polymathic pursuit of knowledge and wisdom across the natural and social sciences, arts, humanities, and holistic healing traditions. Through her formal educational journey, she holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pretoria, an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London, and a BSc in Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. She is currently pursuing a PGCert in Online Learning and Teaching at the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, King’s College London.
Ajao’s lifelong goal is to nurture the inner transformation of Africans for outward impact through
relational repair, cultural shift, and systemic change. She adopts a neo-ancient, integrative approach that blends Ubuntu philosophy, healing justice frameworks, critical consciousness, conflict transformation, neuroscience, and Afro-feminism for intergenerational and collective healing. Her core restorative, somatic tools for embodied transformation include breathwork, movement flow, meditation, storytelling, and healing circles. She actively resists grind culture by cultivating intentional spaces for rest, renewal, and replenishment. A devoted cat lover (purrent), she enjoys spending quality time with her furmily, Mickey and Gypsy.
Through what she calls the school of life, she is in a limitless, polymathic pursuit of knowledge and wisdom across the natural and social sciences, arts, humanities, and holistic healing traditions. Through her formal educational journey, she holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pretoria, an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London, and a BSc in Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. She is currently pursuing a PGCert in Online Learning and Teaching at the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, King’s College London.
Ajao’s lifelong goal is to nurture the inner transformation of Africans for outward impact through
relational repair, cultural shift, and systemic change. She adopts a neo-ancient, integrative approach that blends Ubuntu philosophy, healing justice frameworks, critical consciousness, conflict transformation, neuroscience, and Afro-feminism for intergenerational and collective healing. Her core restorative, somatic tools for embodied transformation include breathwork, movement flow, meditation, storytelling, and healing circles. She actively resists grind culture by cultivating intentional spaces for rest, renewal, and replenishment. A devoted cat lover (purrent), she enjoys spending quality time with her furmily, Mickey and Gypsy.