Aisha Ibrahim

Biographic Data

ID4153384
NAMEAisha Ibrahim
GIVEN NAMESAisha
FAMILY NAMEIbrahim
SIGNATUREIBRAHIM A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sierra Leone
ORCID0000-0002-2174-6608
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Piloting puberty content books and a teacher training guide in Sierra Leone: A qualitative assessment

    Open AccessSusi Martinez, S Gómez Martínez et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2024

    Introduction Ensuring young people receive adequate information and guidance about puberty is essential for healthy adolescent transitions. Although many countries are moving toward including comprehensive sexuality education in national curricula, content on puberty during early adolescence, including peer pressure and stigma related to physical and emotional changes, are rarely included. Limited evidence exists about the inclusion of puberty ed…

  • Inclusive education champions: Overcoming barriers in Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon

    Open AccessNgoran Mathew Banlanjo, Willem Elbers et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2024References: 3

    Contains fulltext : 314117.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)

  • Women's Decreased Political Representation in Postwar Sierra Leone: A Backlash or Lethargy

    Fredline M'Cormack-Hale, Fredline M’cormack-Hale et al.ARTICLEAfrican Conflict and Peacebuilding…2023Cited by: 1

    Women's political empowerment strategies have produced important policy and institutional changes, including increased women's political representation in postwar Sierra Leone, notably at the appointment level. However, these advances seem to be consistently met with different forms of resistance, including violence. The awareness among women and men of the importance of women's political representation is not reflected in the number of women nom…

  • Embracing Aporia: Exploring Arts-Based Methods, Pain, “Playfulness,” and Improvisation in Research on Gender and Social Violence

    Open AccessStephen Forcer, Helen Shutt et al.ARTICLEGlobal Studies Quarterly2022Cited by: 2

    This article explores the role of play and playfulness—as both methodological and analytical tools—in research on social violence. While play may seem antithetical to both discussions on methods and to studying social violence, we found that actually paying attention to such elements was in fact very productive. This article draws on a series of participatory workshops that engaged theater, dance, and comedy, which were held in Sierra Leone in 20…

  • Making sense of girls empowerment in Sierra Leone: A conversation

    Open AccessAisha Fofana Ibrahim, Aisha Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEInternational Politics Reviews2021

    This Testify article features a conversation about the emancipatory potentials and pitfalls of girls empowerment as practiced, experienced, and judged by Sierra Leonean activists. We – two scholars and four activists – discussed views on and experiences of girls empowerment approaches that have been interpreted in critical scholarly literature as a form of neoliberal responsibilization. Also within this critical literature, there is often the not…

  • Gendered “choices” in Sierra Leone: Women in artisanal mining in Tonkolili District

    Aisha Fofana Ibrahim, Aisha Ibrahim et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2020

    This paper examines women’s “choices” in artisanal gold mining in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone. It argues that women’s status in Sierra Leone and their socio-economic conditions contribute to the particular economic practices within artisanal gold mining in which they are able to participate. Showing how state interventions are enmeshed in the pre-existing social relations, dependency ties and governance relations in gold mining sites, it exa…

  • Fragmented yet together: The disability movement in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAmélie van den Brink, Willem Elbers et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2020Cited by: 1References: 8

    The on-going struggles of disability movements worldwide have been examined from multiple perspectives. As of yet, however, research into this topic has largely overlooked experiences on the African continent. This article seeks to address this gap by presenting a case study of the disability movement in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The study finds that on the one hand the Sierra Leonean disability movement is fragmented (referring to the tendency …

  • Whose Seat will become Reserved: The 30% Quota Campaign in Sierra Leone

    Aisha IbrahimARTICLEAfrican and Asian Studies2015Cited by: 1References: 7

    Post-war reconstruction efforts in Sierra Leone combined with global discourses around issues of democracy and participation have, to some extent, created a space for political engagement of traditionally marginalized groups, including women. Women’s political engagement has, in recent times, centered around a campaign for a 30% constitutionally mandated gender quota system which, it is believed, will be the most effective way to get more female …

  • Women's Voices, Work and Bodily Integrity in Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Processes in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessHussainatu J Abdullah, Aisha Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEIDS Bulletin2010Cited by: 3References: 2

    This article focuses on the historical trajectories of women's empowerment in Sierra Leone, taking three entry-points as a means of exploring the dynamics of change over the pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict periods: voice and political participation; work and economic participation; and bodily integrity. Looking at pathways of empowerment in pre-conflict Sierra Leone, at experiences of women during the time of conflict over the course of …