Eight years following shooting, Nobel-winner Malala graduates
20 June, 2020
Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, who moved to Britain after getting shot for campaigning for females' education in Pakistan, described her delight Friday in graduating from Oxford University.
Almost eight years after she was attacked simply by the Taliban on her behalf school bus in the Swat Valley, the 22-year-old posted photographs along Twitter of her celebrations with her family.
"Hard expressing my enjoyment and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics level at Oxford," she said.
"I have no idea what's ahead. For now, it'll be Netflix, reading and rest."
The photographs show Malala covered in brightly coloured items of paper and foam -- a student tradition -- and having a cake with her family, decorated with what "Happy Graduation Malala".
Malala primary rose to prominence aged just 11 with a good blog for the BBC's Urdu-language service charting her life found in Swat beneath the Taliban.
She was shot in the top by a Taliban hitman in October 2012, and after being flown to Britain for life-saving treatment, the family settled in Birmingham, central England.
She was at college there when she heard in 2014 that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi "for his or her struggle against the suppression of kids and young persons and for the proper of all children to education."
The youngest ever Nobel laureate, she's continued to speak out for girls' education.
Source: www.thejakartapost.com
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