About Hauwa Ibrahim
Hauwa Ibrahim (born 1968) is a Nigerian human rights lawyer who won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 2005. == Early life == Hauwa Ibrahim was born in Gombe, Nigeria in 1968. She was born in a Muslim family of eight children. Ibrahim grew up in a small village called Hinna which is in Yalmatu Deba Local Government Area. She was a talah girl. A talah girl walks house to house selling items that she carries on her head.This included objects such as groundnuts, onions, vegetables, and sweet potatoes. Selling these goods was Ibrahim's way of making a money but she was also committed to furthering her education. Her mother was very supportive of her drive to having an education, saying that "education was the only path out of poverty". Ibrahim was originally arranged to be married when she was ten years old. To prevent her marriage, Ibrahim ran away to an all-girl boarding school and continued her path to an education.
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