/lit/ - Literature

>>12390157
>Nana Asma’u
60 surviving works
large body of poetry in Arabic, the Fula language and Hausa
Collected Works of Nana Asma'u, Daughter of Usman Dan Fodiyo

>>12311373
Here you go black, a woman and muslim.

Nana Asma’u bint Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo

>Well educated in the classics of the Arab and Classical world, and well versed in four languages (Arabic, the Fula language, Hausa and Tamacheq Tuareg), Nana Asma'u had a public reputation as a leading scholar in the most influential Muslim state in West Africa, which gave her the opportunity to correspond broadly

>She witnessed many of the wars of the Fulani War and wrote about her experiences in a prose narrative Wakar Gewaye, "The Journey"

>She became a counsellor to her brother when he took the Caliphate, and is recorded writing instructions to governors and debating with the scholars of foreign princes.

>Among her more than 60 surviving works written over 40 years, Nana Asma’u left behind a large body of poetry in Arabic, the Fula language and Hausa,

>Others of the surviving written works by Asma'u are related to Islamic education: for much of her adult life she was responsible for women's religious education. Starting around 1830, she created a cadre of women teachers (jajis) who travelled throughout the Caliphate educating women in the students' homes. In turn, each of these jajis used Nana Asma’u's and other Sufi scholars writings, usually through recited mnemonics and poetry