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Stories from the community as told by the community. Arewa Voices documents the voices of Arewa women in the Hausa community of Nigeria.

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Arewa Voices

Stories from the community as told by the community. Arewa Voices documents the voices of Arewa women in the Hausa community of Nigeria.

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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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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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

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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

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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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Inside the life of an asexual Arewa woman

My community right now isn't made up of LGBTQ+ people but my friends support me, although I wish I knew more asexuals. When our bodies do not fit convention and the status quo. We are relegated; seen as dirty and sinful. In a society where sexuality and sex are rigidly approached; where there is a…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedJanuary 6, 20220Comments

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What Christmas Is Like For Arewa Christian Women

Northern Nigeria is depicted as muslim majority in Nigeria mass media and as such Christmas and Christmas content isn't usually the most common theme to come out of the region. However there is huge number of Christian's in the region to ignore them would be to capture an inaccurate view of the north that's why…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedDecember 30, 20210Comments

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Movie review: Queen Amina, showing on Netflix.

The trailer of this movie suggests the making of the almost myth of Queen Amina's life into a movie. The movie begins and I already have a problem with costume design. I observed a lot of costume errors in this movie that a quick google search or possibly asking Ali Nuhu, the only known person…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedDecember 16, 20210Comments

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#Arewametoo: A timeline of the movement breaking the silence in the north

The Me Too (or #MeToo) movement, with variations of related local or international names, is a movement against sexual abuse and sexual harassment where people speak out and publicize sex crimes. The phrase "Me Too" was initially used in this context on social media in 2006, on Myspace, by sexual assault survivor and activist Tarana…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedDecember 9, 20210Comments

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Six books on SGBV you should read.

The best way to learn about anything is to read about it and not just about the concept, but about what it means to live through the concept and experience it. Reading allows one to understand the stories behind a concept or a problem as sexual and gender-based violence can be ambiguous to certain groups…

ByAisha Kabiru MohammedDecember 2, 20210Comments

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