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Woman Crush Sunday (WCS): Aisha Yesufu

       
  Aisha Yesufu was born on the 12th of December 1974 in Kano State, She is a Nigerian socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, an advocacy group that brings attention to the abduction of over 200 girls, from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Yesufu was among the women protestors at Nigeria's National Assembly, in the nation's capital, Abuja, on the 30th of April 2014.
Yesufu was born and raised in Kano, and experienced the difficulty of being a girl-child in a heavily patriarchal environment, In her words, “By the time I was 11 years old, I did not have any female friends because all of them had been married off but I wanted to be educated and leave the ghetto. She also said "Most of my mates were almost grandmothers when I married at 22. She married her husband Aliu in 1996 and they have two children together.Yesufu has  been at the forefront of the End SARS movement, which draws attention to the excesses of a controversial police unit in the Nigeria Police Force, called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).[3] Yesufu has said she would not leave the fight against End SARS protest in Nigeria for her children. It is beautiful to stand for something than to fall for anything...What legacy do you want to have?

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