Aisha Yesufu

Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu (born 12 December 1973), is a Nigerian political activist and businesswoman. She is the co-founder of #BringBackOurGirls movement, which brought attention to the abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on the 14th of April, 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram. She has also been prominently involved in the End SARS movement against police brutality in Nigeria. from Agbede in Edo State. By the time she was eleven years old, she had no female friends, as they had all either married or died in childbirth. And by the time she was married at 24, most of her remaining friends were nearing grandmother status. She says her love of books helped her during childhood, reading made her realize "there was a world beyond the ghetto that I was growing up in… and I wanted that life". Yesufu was among the women prot estors who marched on the Nigerian National Assembly, in the nation's capital, Abuja, on 30 April 2014.

Awards Yesufu was among BBC's 100 Women in 2020. Yesufu was included in a list of the Top 100 Most Influential Africans by New African magazine in 2020. In 2023, Reputation Poll International (RPI) named Aisha Yesufu as one of the 14 Nigerians who made the list of '100 most reputable Africans'. She was also included in the list of the 50 Most Impactful Voices List to mark 2023 International Women’s Day. Additional Yesufu has won the Martin Luther King Award.

Personal life Yesufu married her husband, Mr. Aliu Osigwe Yesufu, in 1998. They have two children, Amir and Alliyah.