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Popular Nigerian activist and social critic, Aisha Yesufu, has called on women to learn to be comfortable with divorce, stressing that the longevity of marriage should not be the prize.
According to her, the focus in marriage should be the happiness of the couple.
She said this while reacting to reports that actors Patrick and Iretiola Doyle’s marriage is over.
“We should learn to be comfortable with divorce. The longevity of a marriage should not be the prize. The prize should be happiness, fulfillment and mental well being of the couple involved. Where it is no longer optimal, people can decide to go their separate ways and be happy,” she tweeted.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Aisha co-founded the #BringBackOurGirls movement, which brought attention to the abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Aisha was a prominent member of the End SARS movement, which began in 2017 and drew attention to police brutality in Nigeria, from a controversial police unit in the Nigeria Police Force called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
A photograph of her wearing hijab at an End SARS protest became an iconic symbol of the movement.
The activist had said of the End SARS protests, “I will not be an irresponsible parent and leave this fight for my children. I am ready to sacrifice my life for my children to live. I brought them to this world, and I need to fix the world I put them in.”
She was among BBC’s 100 Women in 2020. She was included in a list of the Top 100 Most Influential Africans by New African magazine in 2020.
Aisha married her husband, Aliu, in 1998. They have two children.