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“In the south, Zaria flourished. For much of the sixteenth century this was the strongest state in Hausland, making vassals, or subject-states, both in the east and west. This brief though brilliant rise to supremacy is said to have been th work of a remarkable queen called Barkwa Turunda and even more of her forceful daughter, Queen Amina, who is said to have reigned for 34 years, subduing Nupe and the Jukun. Amina became famous for building Zaria’s first city wall.”
-Basil Davidson, West Africa Before the Colonial Era
