Dr. Aisha Fofana Ibrahim is a Sierra Leonean activist, feminist scholar, researcher and practitioner in Gender and Development.
She teaches gender studies at the graduate level and promotes women's empowerment through advocacy. As a gender activist, her current advocacy focus is on increased representation of women in decision making and leadership and in ensuring that a new and revised Sierra Leone constitution addresses the marginalization of women. Her current academic research focus is on gender and artisan mining and the impact of Ebola on women and girls but she also works on violence against women, women's political participation and women's narratives and auto/biographical writings.[1]
Aisha Fofana Ibrahim was the Ebola and Constitutional Review Commission President of the 50/50 Group (Sierra Leone)[2] between 2013 and 2015, a prominent civil society organization in Sierra Leone that focuses on ensuring women's equal political representation, and promoting gender equality in Sierra Leone.
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