Author: Khadijah Yusra Sanusi

In 2020, I wrote an article about the influence of Bollywood (the Indian film industry) on Kannywood (the Hausa-language film industry based in Northern Nigeria).

Fatima Mernissi, a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist, wrote a book titled The Forgotten Queens of Islam, which studies 15 centuries of Islamic history.

In February 2017, Samina Ali, an American author and activist, was invited to speak at the University of Nevada’s TEDx event. In her speech, she answered the question people have been asking for centuries

In September 2020, I wrote about the then-recent story of Farishina, a 12-year-old girl who was raped by 11 men, one of whom was 57 years old.

I was in my early twenties the first time I saw a VVF (vesico-vaginal fistula) patient.

One of my closest friends – let’s call her Q – is a 24-year-old woman from Kano, northern Nigeria. She was sexually assaulted by her cousin for 10 long years. This abuse started when she was only 11.

In Ramadan 2020, I received the most troubling email.