Hauwa Ibrahim: Nigeria’s Fearless Human Rights Lawyer and Activist
Hauwa Ibrahim: Nigeria’s Fearless Human Rights Lawyer and Activist Hauwa Ibrahim, born in 1968 in Northern Nigeria, rose from a poor village in Gombe State to become the first female lawyer from Northern Nigeria, defying cultural norms that often saw girls married off by age 12 or 13. In the 1990s and early 2000s, she…