Aisha Yesufu Named Among BBC’s 100 Most Influencial Women
Aisha Yesufu, co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls,(BBOG), campaign, had been named among the BBC’s 100 inspiring and Influencial women around the world for the year 2020. Yesufu, a Socio political activist, microbiologist, business woman and prominent promoter of the protest against police brutality tagged #EndSARS that rocked Nigeria in October 2020 was prominently associated with the #Revolutionnow movement.Yesufu thanked her teeming fans in her Instagram page, saying “It is an honour and humbling experience to be among @BBC100 women. My fellow Nigerians, this is for you. I am, because we are.” One day, we will have a Nation where lives matter and the child of nobody can become somebody without knowing anybody.” Yesufu has in the last month received no fewer than five awards and recognitions, most recently last Sunday, when she was awarded the Funmilayo Ransome Kuti Human Rights Award by CSR in Action, a Civil Society Organisation in Nigeria.
Yesufu, who was born by Edo parents and raised in Kano, experienced the difficulty of being a girl child in a heavily patriarchal environment. “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.” According to her, most of her mates were almost grandmothers when she married at 24.