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 […]
Increse at a Glance: There was a Woman [Chapter II]
George Aken’Ova and Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Nuhu at Caen, France, in 1984. By Amatesiro Dore The harsh winter of Caen, north-western France, drove Dorothy [Miss Cesnabmihilo Nuhu] back home. In her own words: it wasn’t conducive or palatable at all. Used to the scorching sun of Sokoto and Maiduguri, the refrigerating French cold compelled her return […]
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 […]