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“From Senegambia to Mali—including in the Islamic theocracy in Futa Djallon,84 in Futa Toro,85 and among the Dina in Masina—the Fulbe also contributed decisively to state building in nineteenth-century western Bilad al-Sudan.86 Particularly remarkable among them was Umar Tall.87 Initiated into the Tijaniyya in his homeland of northern Senegal,…
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A contemporary take on traditional Hausa architecture
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HIKMA - A Religious and Secular Complex / atelier masōmī + studio chahar
Completed in 2018 in Niger. Images by James Wang, Mariama Kah. In the 9th century AD, Muslim scholars made remarkable contributions to the sciences and humanities in Bagdad’s Bayt al-Hikma, or House of Wisdom, a...
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Distribution of Hausa speakers in west Africa.
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Hausa traditional music
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The Language of African Music: Hausa – ALMA
The Language of African Music: Hausa – ALMA
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“Beverly Mack and Jean Boyd have documented the role played by women in the intellectual and political life of the Sokoto Caliphate. Uthman Dan Fodio himself belonged to a clan in which women received religious instruction. His mother and grandmother were learned scholars,77 and his daughter Nana Asma’u78 (d. 1864) wrote nine poems in Arabic,…
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