Category: Arewa Voices
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A hijabi’s place in the modern world
The hijab is very important to me. It’s part of my identity, the moment you see me you know I’m a Muslim woman.
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Turaren Wuta: Uses and significance to Arewa women.
I’m from Maiduguri and one of the ways you can identify a person from Maiduguri aside from their dressing and language is Turaren Wuta.
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Women: Northern Nigeria’s Collateral Damage
In Nigeria, women and girls make up at least 79 per cent of around 2.5 million people displaced across the country’s northeast as a result of the 11-year conflict between the armed group Boko Haram and the Nigerian government.
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Inside the life of an Asexual Arewa woman.
Last year. I was having a conversation with myself about sex and I understood that sex has a very different meaning to me and doesn’t necessarily mean the final level of acquiring intimacy and satisfaction
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Murdered in whose name?
From a peripheral knowledge of Sharia law, there is a huge condemnation of these killings by a lot of Muslims.
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The Role of Muslim Women during Ramadan
One of those rights for the husband is the right to restrict his wife’s movement. The Quran also states that a woman must obey her husband, and when she does not, her husband can admonish her.