Hafsat Abiola

Hafsat Abiola (* 1974 in Lagos) is a Nigerian activist for human rights and democracy.

Life

She is the seventh child of Moshood Abiola, the 1993, the first democratic elections of Nigeria won, but then was arrested and died in prison shortly before his release in 1998. Her mother, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, was active after the imprisonment of her husband in the democracy movement and was assassinated during a demonstration for the release of her husband in 1996. Hafsat Abiola founded the organization in her honor Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND ), whose director, she is also.

Abiola attended from 1989 to 1992, the Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a cum laude. Your degree in economics reached at Harvard University in 1997. Afterwards, she co-organized the Special Olympics and for two years president of the International African Students Association.

After her long stay in the U.S., they decreased in 1999 to Nigeria with their organization CHILD train young women there. In 2005 she married a British diplomat, has since been Hafsat Abiola - Costello, is a mother and lives in Beijing. In 2008 she founded there the organization CAB ( China Africa Bridge ), which it launched today.

Hafsat Abiola travels around the world to give lectures. In Germany she was last on the 30th German Protestant Church, to which they invited German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to adopt Nigeria 's debt.

Memberships

  • Kudirat Initiative for Democracy, founder and CEO
  • World Future Council, Commissioner
  • Institute of Noetic Sciences, International Advisory Board
  • World Wisdom Council, which cooperates with the Club of Budapest
  • Women 's Learning Partnership Board (Treasurer)
  • Educate Girls Globally, Chief Executive
  • Global Security Institute, Board of Advisors
  • Global Youth Connect, co-founder / Steering Committee
  • Vital Voices Global Advisory Council

Awards

  • Youth Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission, 1997
  • State of the World Forum Changemaker Award, 1998
  • Woman to Watch Award for the Association for Women in Development, 1999
  • Global Leader of Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum, 2000
  • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Global Award, 2001
  • Ashoka Fellow, 2003
  • Haverford College, honorary doctorate, 2003
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