Remembering Bilkisu Yusuf: The Nigerian journalist and feminist who died in Mecca stampede

In a few weeks, Muslims across the world will enter the month of Ramadan and begin a 29/30-day fasting. The holy period comes before an obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca, another of the religion's five pillars.

It's a perfect time to remember Bilkisu Yusuf, the Nigerian journalist and feminist who died in a tragic stampede in Mecca five years ago.

Before Yusuf made the long trip across many oceans to the holy land as her religion instructs, she had made a name as one of Nigeria's finest journ...