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Hauwa Liman
Hauwa is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Hauwa Ali (died 1995), Nigerian novelist *Hauwa Allahbura, Nigerian actress and film producer *Hauwa Ibrahim (born 1968), Nigerian human rights lawyer *Hauwa Ojeifo Hauwa Ojeifo (born 1992) is a Nigerian sexual violence and mental health activist. She is known to be the first Nigerian female to have received a Queen's Young Leader Award for her work. Early life and education Ojeifo attended the Universit ... (born 1992), Nigerian sexual violence and mental health activist * Hauwa Muhammed Sadique (born 1969), Nigerian engineer {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauwa Ali
Hauwa Ali (died 1995) was a Nigerian writer known for her novels exploring the lives of Muslim women and raising questions about Islamic values and women's independence. Her best-known novel, ''Destiny'', won the Delta prize for fiction. Life She was born in Gusau in northern Nigeria.Shirin Edwin"'Working' and 'Studying' Muslim Women: African Feminist Theory and the African Novel" ''Women's Studies, An inter-disciplinary journal'' , Volume 37, Issue 5, 2008. She taught at the University of Maiduguri and her novels were published in the late 1980s. In 1995 she died of breast cancer.Ezenwa-Ohaeto"Shaking the Veil: Islam, Gender and Feminist Configurations in the Nigerian Novels of Hauwa Ali and Zaynab Alkali" ''Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies'', 24(2–3) 1996. Writing Her fiction is written from the point of view of a young unmarried woman, and presents education as "the gateway to a successful, stimulating future". The central character of her first novel ''Destiny'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauwa Allahbura
Hauwa Allahbura is a Northern Nigerian business woman from Borno State, political activist, an advocate of peace and good governance, and founder of Pull-up Naija. She is also Nollywood film producer. She is the CEO of Cut24 Productions and she has produced and directed several films including '' Gidi Blues'' (2016) '' The Eve'' (2018) and ''Code Wilo'' (2019).. She is the founder of Pull-up Naija, a group that is sensitizing the Nigerian youth on the modus operandi of participating actively in the election process. Early life and education She was born in Jos, Plateau State into a family of customs officers. She hails from Borno State, where her father originates from. Because of the nature of her father's job, she attended primary schools in three different places; the Crescent International School, Lagos; the Crescent International School, Kano; and the French International School, Badagry. For her secondary school, she attended the Police Secondary School, Minna, Niger State; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauwa Ibrahim
Hauwa Ibrahim (born 1968) is a Nigerian human rights lawyer who won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 2005. Life Ibrahim was born in Gombe in 1968. She was trained to be a lawyer and was considered the first Muslim woman in Nigeria to achieve this distinction. Ibrahim was known for pro bono work defending people condemned under the Islamic Sharia laws that are in force in the northern Nigerian provinces. She defended Amina Lawal, Safiya Hussaini and Hafsatu Abubákar. In 2005 she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for this work. Hauwa has been a Visiting Professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and Stonehill College, a World Fellow at Yale University, a Radcliffe fellow, and a fellow at both the Human Rights Program and the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard University. Hauwa is presently a teacher and a researcher at Harvard University. She is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Witho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauwa Ojeifo
Hauwa Ojeifo (born 1992) is a Nigerian sexual violence and mental health activist. She is known to be the first Nigerian female to have received a Queen's Young Leader Award for her work. Early life and education Ojeifo attended the University of Reading in England where she acquired a Master of Science degree in Investment Banking and Islamic Finance. Career During her teenage and early adult life years she struggled with depression. In February 2016, Ojeifo attempted suicide. And in 2014, she was sexually abused. She was also Diagnosed with bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. To turn her difficult experiences into something positive, she founded the She Writes Woman foundation in April 2016. And through her foundation, she provides support to sexual abuse victims and people in the West Africa who need mental health care . In February 2020, during Nigeria's bid to pass its first mental health law, Ojeifo is known to have defended the rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |