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For instance, within Bori sub ethnic group in Kano, women could divorce their husbands without any religious impediments to it. These women often referred to with a derogatory Hausa slur Karuwanci will chose to live in gidan mata under the leadership of magajiya. [14] They were known for their peculiar livelihood made from dance and prostitution.
According to Hausa genealogical tradition, their identity came into being as a direct result of the migration of Fula people into Hausaland occurring from the 15th century [60] and later at the beginning of the 19th century, during the revolution led by Sheikh Usman Danfodiyo against the Hausa Kingdoms, founding a centralized Sokoto Caliphate.
Amina was born in the middle of the sixteenth century CE to King Nikatau, the 22nd ruler of Zazzau, and Queen Bakwa Turunku (r. 1536–c. 1566). [4] She had a younger sister named Zaria for whom the modern city of Zaria (Kaduna State) was renamed by the British in the early twentieth 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.
She was the secretary-general of the local hausa association of female producers. Her first appearance was in Tuba and later on she featured on bayajida, a historical film used in teaching pupils in school today. [ 2 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (1948–2013) was a Hausa singer. [1] [2] Life ... since she addressed issues intimate to women, about life ...
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 ] The republishing and translation of her works has brought added attention to the purely literary value of her prose and poems.