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Since the early 20th century, these peoples are often classified as "Hausa–Fulani" within Nigeria rather than as individuated groups. [49] In fact, a large number of Fulani living in Hausa regions cannot speak Fulfulde at all and speak Hausa as their first language.
Occupying the Northern region of present day Nigeria. the Hausa Kingdom consisted of seven Hausa States, each state with distinctive cultural inclination on gender roles and fluidity prior to the Jihadist Movement which brought about the Islamization of the major Hausa states between the 11th and 12th century.
Baba was born to a Hausa Muslim family in the small African town of Karo. [4] Her birth took place in the 19th century, before Karo became part of the British Empire. [4] Karo was an agrestic town where harvesting and agriculture were important. [5] Before British rule, Hausa women could be found harvesting the fields. [5]
British and French colonialism, though, offered little space for women in the official hierarchies of indirect rule, and the formal roles, like the Bori, for women in governance largely disappeared by the mid 20th century. [10] In modern Muslim Hausaland, Bori ritual survives in some places assimilated into syncretic practices.
In 1973 she started performing at marriage and naming ceremonies. She gained "a reputation as a boisterous and uninhibited performer who 'said it like it was', since she addressed issues intimate to women, about life, wealth, husbands and survival." [1] Alhaji Aliyu died in 1991.
Today in Northern Nigeria, Islamic women's organisations, schools, and meeting halls are commonly named for her. She re-entered the debate on the role of women in Islam in the 20th century, as her legacy has been carried by Islamic scholars and immigrants to Europe and its academic debates. [16]
Queen Amina was the eldest daughter of Queen Bakwa Turunku, founder of the Zazzau Kingdom. She was a fierce Hausa Warrior Queen of Zazzau who reigned around the early 16th century. [4] She was a fearless warrior. She was born in 1533 and was a trained warrior who was said to have great strength as a man. [5]
The Hausa–Fulani identity came into being as a direct result of the migration of Fulani people to Hausaland around the 14th century and their cultural assimilation into the Hausa society. At the beginning of the 19th century, Sheikh Usman dan Fodio led a successful jihad against the Hausa Kingdoms founding a centralized Fulani Empire ...