Aisha Yesufu
Nigerian social activist
Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu (born 12 December 1973) is a Nigerian activist and businesswoman. She co-founded the #BringBackOurGirls movement, which 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. She has also been prominently involved in the End SARS movement against police brutality in Nigeria.
Quotes
edit- One of them had pushed me and the raised hand might be what some saw as a slap. No, I wasn’t slapped and I refused to cower and I turned and gave them a piece of what I thought of their pathetic selves and if I am going to die, it would be with my fist high up and my mouth open.
- [1] Aisha Yesufu speaking at the EndSARS protest on October 2020
- I would never give up on Nigeria no matter what it throws at me. I owe it to unborn generations on their way to Nigeria and I will continue to fight for Nigeria just as I wished others had fought for me before I came to be Nigerian.
- [2] Aisha Yesufu speaking at the EndSARS protest on October 2020
- Herdsmen who are criminals have to be criminalized. Those who aren't shouldn't. No one has monopoly to cause trouble and no one is safe from what trouble can cause.
- [3] Aisha Yesufu speaking on insurgence.
- Politics affect lives and we all have to be politicians. You can be the one being voted for or the one voting for or the one volunteering in someone's campaign or helping to raise money or donating or giving governance or making demands.
- [4] Aisha Yesufu speaking on politics and everyone involvement.
- It is just unbelievable how we tend to reward incompetence and punish competence.
- [5] Aisha Yesufu speaking on nepotism.
- One thing I have learnt, is that, sometimes you need your opponent to do so badly and make you a choice.
- [6] Aisha speaking on seeing value in others.
- “There is nothing to go into fighting mood over this nothing – so focus on your message and the results that you want is the most important.”
- [7] Aisha Yesufu warning protestors against distraction and division #EndSars
