One morning in January 2015, Hafsat Bukar woke up to a violent attack by Boko Haram insurgents in Baga, a town in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno. When her family saw people running helter-skelter, they joined the crowd as the sounds of gunshots displaced dozens of villagers. Hafsat, who was only nine years old […]
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Zarah Adamu, 19, made it to her final year in Junior Secondary School, only to watch her dream of becoming an architect crumble right before her eyes. “Poverty is the major reason I dropped out,” she told HumAngle. Zarah, the third of seven children, had, fortunately, scaled through to JSS 3 at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi […]
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For Ruqayyah Bashir*, 18, the burden of feeding and schooling lies on her mother. When economic hardship trailed the fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria, things became unbearable for the family. Ruqayyah, a senior secondary school student at the Women Training College in Kaduna, North West Nigeria, said her pensioner father leaves her mother to carry […]
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