Marian Awaisu

Maryam Awaisu is an author of three novels, a radio presenter, one of the founders of the #ArewaMetoo movement and a survivor of sickle cell anaemia. Maryam is a writer, activist and also a volunteer at a sickle cell foundation in Kaduna State called Sickle Cell Health Promotion Centre. Here's why Maryam is an Iconic…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedMay 11, 20220Comments

Arewa Voices

The Role of Muslim Women During Ramadan

This year, Document Women reflects on the role of Muslim women during Ramadan, their duties as well as their status within the ambit of religion and family. Ramadan is a period of religious fasting for Muslims. The month-long period is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar and the holy month of fasting. It begins and…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedApril 28, 20220Comments

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Angelique Kidjo

Angelique Kidjo is a singer-songwriter from Ouida in the Benin Republic. She is a multiple award-winning musician known for her collaborations with internationally prominent popular musicians and innovative blending of musical styles. The genres she plays include: Afropop, Afrobeat, reggae, world music, world fusion, worldbeat, jazz, Gospel and Latin Early Life. Angelique was born into…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedApril 27, 20220Comments

Body Language

Living with Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF)

Picture yourself, a young girl living in the villages of northwest Nigeria. The flatness of your chest slowly filling out into mounds. Making it so that when you jump and run around the dusty streets of your village they bounce with you. You are not the only one who sees this change. The men of…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedApril 19, 20221Comment

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To Be a Hijabi in 2022

Maryam had not yet been given her uniform, so she dressed to school in the clothes a typical Muslim girl would wear: A long top, a pair of straight jeans and a brightly coloured scarf wrapped around her head and neck probably folded over her head three times and very lumpy at the back (a…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedFebruary 17, 20220Comments

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Amina Augie

Amina Augie is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She is from Kebbi state in North-Western Nigeria. Early life and Education. Amina Adamu Augie was born Anne Eva Graham (neé Anne Eva Graham) on 3 September 1953, in Lagos, Nigeria as one of nine children. She is from Kebbi State. She attended Abadina…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedFebruary 16, 20220Comments

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Women; Northern Nigeria’s Collateral Damage

Leah Sharibu is still in Boko Haram custody over 10 years later. Hanifa Abdulkarim, Kidnapped and brutally murdered by the proprietor of her school. Fadilah, raped by a social worker and traumatised by the experience afterwards committed suicide. These are a few of the women whose lives have been affected by the insecurity that has…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedFebruary 3, 20220Comments

Everyday Feminism

Turaren Wuta: Uses and Significance for Arewa Women.

Traditional Incense Turaren Wuta directly translates to 'light/fire perfume". It is a substance that is burned to produce a fragrant scent. Incense is commonly used in Asian traditions, where it is passed to guests as a gesture of hospitality. It is used in Northern Nigerian for its fragrance. Some women also believe that the consistent…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedJanuary 27, 20220Comments

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The Dingep queen

Queen Amina of Zazzau is the only recorded and celebrated female monarch in Northern Nigeria, though her existence is still seen by some to be a myth. However, Modern day female monarchs exist. In Adamawa state, Ganye Local Government Area. The Dingep kingdom has been ruled for many centuries by women.17 queens spanning across several…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedJanuary 20, 20220Comments

Arewa Voices

A hijabi’s place in the modern world.

The word hijab refers to both the head-covering traditionally worn by many Muslim women and to the concept of modesty in Islam generally. With the increased terrorist attacks in the early 2000s, and the Arab spring. Islamophobia has become a reaction to Islamic extremist attacks all around the world and the target for this Islamophobia…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedJanuary 13, 20221Comment

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Marian Awaisu

The Role of Muslim Women During Ramadan

Angelique Kidjo

Living with Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF)

To Be a Hijabi in 2022

Amina Augie

Women; Northern Nigeria’s Collateral Damage

Turaren Wuta: Uses and Significance for Arewa Women.

The Dingep queen

A hijabi’s place in the modern world.

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