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Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Heinemann, 2007) (Social History of Africa). Being and becoming Hausa: interdisciplinary perspectives. African social studies series. Anne Haour, Benedetta Rossi (eds.). Leiden; Boston: Brill. 2010.
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]
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.
Hafsat Abdulwaheed Ahmed (born May 5, 1952) is a Nigerian writer, poet, and a women's rights activist. She is the first female Hausa writer from Northern Nigeria to have written a published novel. She is the first female Hausa writer from Northern Nigeria to have written a published novel.
Despite the disillusionment of bureaucrats, both colonial and post-independence natives, and despite the spread of Latin alphabet through secular education, Christian missionaries have remained interested in Ajami script as one of the ways to communicate in Hausa. Throughout the 20th and the 21st century, various translated Christian literature ...
Katja Werthmann, "The example of Nana Asma'u", D+C: Development & Cooperation, InWEnt gGmbH, No.03, 2005. Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u, "Nana Asma'u Tradition: An Intellectual Movement and a Symbol of Women Rights in Islam During the 19th Century DanFodio's Islamic Reform". Department of Mass Communications, Bayero University, Kano. Paper Presented ...
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 ...
Women in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940's and early 50's were not educated in Western domestic lifestyles. Women Clubs began to emerge where women aimed to educate one another on domestic living and hygiene. Helen Mangwende led the movement in Southern Rhodesia and founded the FAWC (Federation of African Women Clubs). This group had over 700 ...