Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode

Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode

Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode is a development specialist, international non-governmental organisation (NGO) expert, and human rights activist specialising in women’s and girls’ initiatives.

Muhammed-Oyebode is the founder and CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation, a non-governmental political advocacy organisation dedicated to engendering socio-economic change on the African continent, which has positively influenced education; capacity building, and disaster risk management, particularly with the insurgency and terrorism in the north-eastern part of Nigeria.

She is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. She is an advisor and country expert to the University of Pennsylvania Law Global Women’s Leadership Project, and an advisor to the

United States Institute of Peace (USIP), as a member of its senior working group on Northern Nigeria. In addition, Muhammed-Oyebode is a co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, formed in the aftermath of the abduction of over 200 girls from their school premises in the Chibok village of Borno State, Nigeria.

She has an LLM in Public International Law from King’s College, University of London, and an MBA in Finance from Imperial College, University of London. She is a member of both the Nigerian Bar Association and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is currently a Ph.D. scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London with a focus on gender and conflict.

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    By : Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode

    The Stolen Daughters of Chibok

    ₦4,500.00 – ₦7,500.00

    In the middle of the night of April 14 to 15, 2014, terrorists abducted 276 girls from their secondary school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria. Over the following days, fifty-seven girls managed to escape. For two years, 219 girls remained missing.

    During the last four months of 2015, in the heat of the worst of the Boko Haram insurgency, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, the CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) embarked on a project to interview, photograph, and document the accounts of the parents of each of the missing girls. The MMF’s team managed to meet the relatives of 210 of them.

    In the intervening years, 107 girls have made it home: four by Nigerian military/paramilitary intervention, and 103 by negotiated release. At the time of going to press 112 girls remain unaccounted for.

    The Stolen Daughters of Chibok is a collection of written and pictorial narratives from the families of these stolen girls. It features the photography of awardwinner photographer Akintunde Akinleye. Essays and analyses from acclaimed experts append these personal histories to create a tribute to the girls, capturing their lives before the abduction and presenting the trauma of a community desperately learning to cope.