INCRESE ALUMNI: CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIAL CHANGE
A Day at INCRESE is often marked with experience-sharing mingled with sighs and laughter. For us at INCRESE, it is the diversity of experiences that young people have outside our premises, either in their communities, work places or schools that excite us and spur us on. Their courage to take our feminist activism to […]
A DAY AT INCRESE: 2018 ALUMNI FORUM
On average INCRESE graduates 100 young people from a one year course on leadership, sexuality, gender and HIV. Over the years INCRESE has recognized that these young people require some mentoring and has put a support system in place where young graduates can be mentored by older graduates. This system brings the alumni annually to […]
Adolescent Theatre: Domestic Violence and VVF in Northern Nigeria
By Amatesiro Dore The shows are site-specific: Kampala, a Gbagyi village on the outskirt of Maikunkele, the suburb where the airport in Minna is located. The language is Hausa, the lingua franca of northern Nigeria and passport to the soul of the people. The first performance is an unspoken dance drama. The drumbeat of Joshua […]
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 […]