Rahama SadauRahama Sadau is an actress and she is often referred to as the “Queen of Kannywood”, the Hausa language cinema of Nigeria. In 2015, she kicked off the ‘I would rather be Self-made’ campaign which is an initiative to mentor young girls and women with dreams and aspirations and help some of them start small scale businesses. She took the #iratherbeselfmade project a step further in January 2017, with a state-wide secondary schools tour aimed at sensitising young girls on the core values of self-esteem, integrity, and self-dependence. Her struggle with blinding betrayal and finding forgiveness has been a spring of inspiration to many young girls and women. “Boko Haram know me and fear me,” says Bakari Gombi whose band of hunters has rescued hundreds of men, women and children.”Comments

Source: The North Africa Journal March 08, 2017 16:52 UTC