Aisha Yesufu

Aisha Yesufu (born 12 December 1974) 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. 
Life.
Aisha Yesufu was born in Kano State to Edo parents and raised in Kano. She 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 they all had been married off . I wanted to be educated and leave the ghetto." According to Aisha Yesufu; "Most of my mates were almost grandmothers by the time I got married 24."Another attribute she says helped her during this period was her insatiable hunger for books. Reading made her realise “there was a world beyond the ghetto that I was growing up in…and I wanted that life… and thank God in 2014, my mum would call and say, thank you for dreaming for everybody.”
Yesufu was among the women protestors at Nigerian's National Assembly, in the nation's capital, Abuja, on 30th, April 2014.
Yesufu has also 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). Yesufu has said she "would not leave the End SARS protest in Nigeria for her children."Often maligned for her stance on national issues in Nigeria by pro-government voices, she is not a run-off-the-mill activist. Her penchant for naming names has earned her truckloads of enemies, and perhaps, admirers.
Award.
Yesufu was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020.
Yesufu was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2020.
Personal life.
Yesufu married her husband, Aliu in 1996. They have two children together; Amir and Aliyah who are both in the United Kingdom.