Nana Asma’u bint Foduye

Nana Asma’u bint Foduye, the legendary Islamic scholar and poet of the 19th century was born alongside her twin brother Hassan; in Degel in the Hausa state of Gobir. She was given birth to by the Shehu’s first wife who was also his first cousin; Maimunatu, in the year 1793 A.D. She and her brother

Islam in Hausaland Before The Sokoto Jihad

In this article, we are briefly going to look at how Islam found its way into Hausaland from other regions of Africa. These regions were exposed to Islam as far back as the 7th century during the first Hijrah when Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) advised some of his disciples to seek refuge across the Red Sea

Meet The Curators

How We Met (This is going to be from my P.O.V because Ruqayyah insisted that I write it)I was just going through my TL on Twitter when I saw a tweet from someone whose handle I’d never seen before saying that she’d love to read a northerner’s account of the Nigerian Civil War. That got

The Kano Civil War

A cambridge historian once claimed that Africa has no history. Perhaps that is the worst legacy of our colonial past. We’ve been divorced from our history. I studied America’s civil war years before I even knew the Kano I was born and raised in had one. The Kano civil war (Yakin Basasa in Hausa) took

The Project: It Was Also a Nigerian War

Hello, we’ve all heard of the Biafran war. Different atrocities and crimes against humanity committed as the world failed to stop it. But have you ever heard it told from a northerner’s view? Have you ever heard a side of the story where ‘The Nigerians’ were not the villains? Don’t you believe that history should