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 […]
Mad Love [100-word fiction in celebration of Valentine’s Day]
Supermodels: Tosan Dudun and Ronke by Abu Salami Photography (2018). By Amatesiro Dore Someone told my father I would be sold into slavery and freed by a Prince but nobody told me. Now this man that married me told everyone I was a virgin as though he does not know I’d been raped several times. […]
Increse at a Glance: A luta continua [Chapter V]
Ellis Island, 1998: Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Aken’Ova beneath the Statue of Liberty. By Amatesiro Dore I Shadow Report “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny,” Wole Soyinka, ’86 Nobel Laureate. It was the summer of ’98. At the United Nations Plaza in New York, the Nigerian Minister of Women’s Affairs […]
Increse at a Glance: Partners and Partakers of the Vision [Chapter IV]
May 2017: Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Aken’Ova with her youngest, Adel, at 10. By Amatesiro Dore I Of what use is talent and passion if there are no opportunities and resources to implement proposals, carry out interventions and cause a positive change? What if you meet a man at a motor garage? How do you know he’s […]
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 […]
Increse at a Glance: Begin with a Girl [Chapter I]
Cesnabmihilo Dorothy, and her younger sister, Beatrice [Nuhu] Yakubu, at Diko, Gurara LGA, Niger State; circa 1981. By Amatesiro Dore Introduction This is a story of a girl, an educated woman, allowed to dream and flourish. This is the story of an organization empowered to help, enabled to fight and dedicated to providing Sexual Reproductive […]
We Are Not Coordinated: In Commemoration of Human Rights Day
By Amatesiro Dore My fifty-four year old boss, Dorothy Aken’Ova, is a breast cancer survivor/awareness campaigner, veteran human rights activist and renowned firebrand of Minna who fights against toxic patriarchy, rights infringements, child marriages, domestic violence and other negative northern Nigerian indexes, archaic practices and every form of injustice. For almost three decades, she has […]
Sticks and Stones: 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence
By Amatesiro Dore There was a mad man. His sanity was unquestioned, untreated and permitted to flourish in a world of misogyny and male chauvinism. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine segregated men from women in a class of engineering undergraduates (killing fourteen women and injuring four men) at the École Polytechnique, in what became […]
The Case for Adolescent Healthcare Plans, Programmes and Policies
By Amatesiro Dore Not much, if any, is provided for adolescents in this part of the world. Naturally, society will say but we pay school fees, buy clothes and even sell our conscience for the safety and enjoyment of our wards and children. We did everything for you, Parents tell their oblivious successors and ill-prepared […]