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I woke up today in a very good mood. After performing my morning obligations, I took up a cup of coffee and came online. When I saw your article, I was quite excited!! A chance to be dazzled by our resident feminist intellectual queens at last. However, the article https://twitter.com/Wardah_abbas/status/1309955646293528581">https://twitter.com/Wardah_ab...
was so poorly written and researched, the tone so blatantly biased, that I had to conclude it was a toxic patriarch that wrote it as a covert double agent. A sort of propaganda, so that we scum might actually conclude you queens aren& #39;t so well informed after all. Nevertheless..
I decided to write a reply because of the first paragraph 9th line and the second paragraph first sentence of your article. It is first of all comically ironic how all the major works, articles, and authors you quoted were written by men. Secondly I find the assertion that we...
try to erase powerful women deeply unfair. Nobody doubts Nana Asmau, our mother. Her intellectual, social and political achievements are phenomenal. Why must the emphasis be on the celebration of a warmongering woman. My reply is in 3 major parts. First is a challenge on your...
"Sauces". Second I& #39;d like to talk about castello Damina and lastly, her most famous feat. The walls.
POINT 1;
Sultan Bello& #39;s infaq-Al Maysur.
Sultan Bello son of our sheik Uthman bn Fudi, lived around the late 18th to 19th century. His account of ancient Hausa Kings and their
POINT 1;
Sultan Bello& #39;s infaq-Al Maysur.
Sultan Bello son of our sheik Uthman bn Fudi, lived around the late 18th to 19th century. His account of ancient Hausa Kings and their
activities is the same as ours, probably from oral traditions and the sources he might have had at his disposal. There are 3 major sources which mention Amina. The Kano chronicle which calls her a chiefteness who lived in the early 15th century and had a reign of about 34 years.
Abuja chronicle, which describes her as a cheifteness, the daughter of bakwa turunku, and the Infaq- Al Maysur you love quoting, which is a book of history written by Sultan Bello.
REBUTTAL ;
First of all the Kano chronicle and the Abuja chronicle disagree about the date of...
REBUTTAL ;
First of all the Kano chronicle and the Abuja chronicle disagree about the date of...
her reign by about a hundred years.
Secondly, another important source of hausa history labarin Hausa da makwabatarsu doesn& #39;t mention her at all, and to add to the confusion claims bakwa turunku is actually bako turunku, a cheiftan not a cheiftaness.
Third, Sultan Bello also..
Secondly, another important source of hausa history labarin Hausa da makwabatarsu doesn& #39;t mention her at all, and to add to the confusion claims bakwa turunku is actually bako turunku, a cheiftan not a cheiftaness.
Third, Sultan Bello also..
describes her as the daughter of a cheiftan. This goes directly against what you& #39;ve written in your article. Sultan Bello is your Major source 
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Fourth, she& #39;s not mentioned in any of the lists of Zazzau Cheifs.
Fifth, Muhammedu Kanta another prominent imperialist cheiftan..
Fourth, she& #39;s not mentioned in any of the lists of Zazzau Cheifs.
Fifth, Muhammedu Kanta another prominent imperialist cheiftan..
of the kebbi state is her contemporary. In infaq. kano, Nupe and Zazzau are mentioned as part of his empire and conquered lands, Queen Amina is said to have been incharge of these too, yet there is no record of a clash between them.
Point 2: As @IbnAbdulMalik__ pointed out. This is the rehashing of the careless translation of Castello D& #39;amina as castle of Amina. It& #39;s a portuguese castle in the Gold coast.
POINT 3: She& #39;s credited as innovating the concept of putting up walls to guard city states, but the
POINT 3: She& #39;s credited as innovating the concept of putting up walls to guard city states, but the
Kano chronicle puts the early 12th period as the time walls started coming up. Also Kanta built his walled capital surame, this shows the art was at least a few hundred years old.
P. S The Zazzau Cheifs never called themselves Habe rulers. Habe is the fulani term for the hausa
P. S The Zazzau Cheifs never called themselves Habe rulers. Habe is the fulani term for the hausa
ethnic group. Why would the ancient Zazzau Cheifs call themselves so?
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