Bukky Shonibare

Bukky Shonibare is a Nigerian human rights activist, civic-tech leader, and gender equality advocate. She is the Executive Director of Invictus Africa and is widely known as a strategic team member of the Bring Back Our Girls movement, where she has advocated for the rescue of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls and the protection of women and girls from violence. Her work focuses on gender justice, education, public policy, and the use of data to advance human rights and accountability. Quotes "I am a Nigerian and whatever happens to a fellow Nigerian happens to me as well. I am a mother of a girl, meaning that if my own child went missing, I would want everyone to stand with me." Fighting for the Chibok Girls: Interview with MPSA Participant Bukky Shonibare, Institute for Peace and Security Studies (2016). "We saw that the federal government of Nigeria was not saying anything while the people in Chibok were crying for the fact that their children were yet to come back." Fighting for the Chibok Girls: Interview with MPSA Participant Bukky Shonibare, Institute for Peace and Security Studies (2016). "My worry in notions like this is not so much about the disbelief in the abduction of the Chibok girls, but how long this position has been maintained despite several events having unfolded... all pointing to the truth." Chibok girls: "2 years is too long for our daughters to be in the hands of savages" – Bukky Shonibare, YNaija (14 April 2016). "I can only hope that when the Chibok girls are finally brought back, they would understand." Chibok girls: "2 years is too long for our daughters to be in the hands of savages" – Bukky Shonibare, YNaija (14 April 2016).