Hajara usman biography examples
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The Hajara Usman Girls Leadership Programme: A Legacy Continued
By Amatesiro Dore
Hajara Usman lived in a world without Facebook, Twitter and other platforms for social media activism. At the time of her untimely death, in 1998, she was a celebrated doyen of women rights in northern Nigeria and the global Islamic world. Nowadays, her namesake is a popular Hausa movie industry, Kannywood, actress and a search on Google reveal scant information about her inspiring and groundbreaking works in the areas of human rights, feminism and sexual reproductive health.
From her undergraduate days at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where she began her activism and subsequently became a two-time national secretary of the first post-independence feminist organisation, Women in Nigeria (WIN), to her last duty at Istanbul where she was attending The Feminism in the Muslim World Leadership Institute, Mallama Hajara Usman epitomised the resilience of northern Nigerian women in the fight against cultural and religious oppressions. In 1996, she co-founded the BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, alongside Ayesha Imam, and the organisation has received international awards and recognition.
In 2009, her university mate and founder of INCRESE, Dorothy Aken’Ova, instituted the Hajara Usman Girls’
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A Love Story Spanning 31 Years- A Journey of Love, Commitment, and Loss
Aisha Ahmad Ismail
It was a dark day for Malama Khadija, who despite heavy bleeding with no pads on has been on the road for almost 8 hours, seeking help for a baby that has not cried a day after birth even after visiting 9 hospitals in Kano.
The new mother was forced to ride in her husband’s tricycle, ignoring the dripping blood as they went to 9 hospitals, none accepted them for mainly reasons of bed space
Khadija birthed a girl on Monday, when health care workers at asibitin Bela noticed the child did not cry, and later referred them to Hasiya Bayero Pediatric Hospital for better access to professionals.
Here, a security guard asked them to ‘not waste their time’ as they do not care for children who did not cry at birth.
Other hospitals, the new parents visited Murtala Muhammad specialist where the father said the child was first checked, and her legs pinched with ‘something’.
They were later asked to leave for lack of bed space, and referred to another hospital.
The worried mother held the little girl now named Aminatu as they headed to Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital. There, the doctors refused to attend to the child because they were on strike.
Malam Bala, the new father and a tric
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