Gambo Sawaba
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Gambo Sawaba (15 February 1933 – October 2001) was a Nigerian women's rights activist, politician and philanthropist. She served as the deputy chairman of Great Nigeria People's Party (GNPP) and was elected leader of the national women's wing of Northern Element Progressive Union (NEPU).
Quotes
[edit]- If I don't know book, I know rights, I have not been a member of any House of Assembly (legislature). I have not held any office except that I was a member of the House of Prison.
- Gambo Sawaba's quote
- Politics in the country has lost its flavour and is no longer a game of ideology, but a game of self-aggrandisement
- was beaten up by six men and left to die in a bush
- There is no opening in my body – mouth, nostrils, eyes or anywhere else – from which blood did not gush out from because of torture
- My front teeth are artificial. The originals were broken and pulled out.
- Hajiya Gambo Sawaba: ‘The most jailed Nigerian female politician’,15 Feb 2021,By Tayo Agunbiade
Quotes about Gambo Sawaba
[edit]- She campaigned against the marriage of underage girls and the use of forced labor.
- She was also a great advocate of Western education in the North.
- Meet our Sheroes – Gambo Sawaba,October 22, 2020,Global Rights
- My earliest memories of her when I was growing up was she was fully engaged and involved in civic politics alongside her friends,” Bilikisu recalls
- Throughout her life, she maintained an open-door policy that saw friends, associates and ordinary members of the public come to the house,” Bilikisu explains.
- [She] would not allow anyone to cook for her. She had particular favourites, the Nupe traditional dish of Dukuno, and also Tuwon Shinkafa or Sakwara [popular northern Nigerian dishes.
- Hajiya Gambo Sawaba: ‘The most jailed Nigerian female politician’,15 Feb 2021,By Tayo Agunbiade
- she advocated against the poor state of the prisons and this got her arrested again!
- Be Inspired! Hajia Gambo Sawaba,AUGUST 3, 2015,By Bar Alpha
Some quotes about Gumbo Sawaba
[edit]* "I was beaten, jailed, and mocked, but I never gave up the struggle for the rights of women."
- Source: Oral interviews cited in *Gambo Sawaba: The Story of a Forgotten Heroine* (biography references).
* "I knew that if women remained silent, nothing would change for us."
- Source: Interview excerpts published in Nigerian newspaper archives (1960s).
- "Politics is not only for men. Women have a duty to shape the future of our nation."
- Source: Statements recorded during NEPU women’s mobilization meetings, Kano, 1950s.
