Category: Arewa Voices

Some respondents told Document Women that the unwillingness to be modelled as homemakers and take on responsibilities when they were younger has now put a strain on their relationships with their mothers.

Child Rights Act: adolescent girls are not brides

Zaynab Alkali is famous for being Northern Nigeria’s first female author. Up until she published her first novel, Still Born, in 1984, writers from Northern Nigeria were only men.

For centuries Northern Nigerian women have used herbs, spices and fruits, aphrodisiacs said to enhance sexual libido and bring sweetness to their marriage beds.

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

Novel writing in Northern Nigeria is a fair innovation that began in the 20th century; queer relationships, however, have been a part and parcel of society for a much longer period.

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.