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Nebila Abdulmelik is an Ethiopian feminist activist and prominent women's rights activist, writer, and photographer. She is known for spearheading the campaign #JusticeforLiz which was launched in order to seek justice for a 16 year old Kenyan girl called Liz who was raped in 2013.[1] Nebila has previously served as manager of media relations at FEMNET, an institution that advocates for women's growth in Africa.[2]
Nebila was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nebila is the youngest out of three sisters. Her father and her mother highly encouraged her and her sibling to seek higher knowledge and emphasised that higher education will grant them access to greater opportunities. Her mother left a huge impact on Nebila’s career, being one of the few women in her family to have higher education and work outside of the household at her age.[3] Her father died when she was 13. As a young Muslim woman of Harari origin, she says she suffered from discrimination, which influenced her in becoming an activist.[4] She obtained a scholarship for higher studies in the United States, and graduated with an MA at the University of California, Los Angeles in African Studies.[5]
Education
Nebila quoted in a recent interview that she was the only girl in her kindergarten class growing up. During first grade through ninth grade is where she got to experience a mix of genders. In tenth and eleventh grade she took part in a bridge system that was located in Handcock, Maryland. Nebila moved to the U.S from receiving a higher studies and attended a 2 year community college than later transferred into a four year university to finish her bachelors degree in international development studies. Then after her bachelor's degree she went into her master's program where she studied African Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She stated that her education serves has a huge pillar in the work that she has done throughout her life.[6]
Career
Nebila pursued her career as an activist advocating for women's rights. She has travelled to over 40 countries and has worked with several human rights organisations. She worked with Pan-African women's rights organisations including FEMNET as well as the African Union through the African Governance Architecture Secretariat.[7]
In 2013, she launched an online petition titled #JusticeforLiz following the gang rape of Liz[who?] and the petition garnered more than 2 million signatures demanding death sentence for the rapists.[8]
Two years later, in 2015, she advocated for the creation of Sustainable Development Goal 5,[9] during the development of the Global Goals.
In August 2021, she was listed as one of the seven African women activists who deserve a Wikipedia article by the Global Citizen, an international organisation and advocacy organisation.[10]
Creative work
Nebila is a freelance writer and photographer. She founded Afro Trotter Diaries to showcase African women's travels through story and image.[11]
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