Nikki Merritt
Biographic Data
| ID | 255066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikki Merritt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikki |
| FAMILY NAME | Merritt |
| SIGNATURE | MERRITT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Horizons Mondiaux, Ouagadougou |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nana Asma'u, her elegies and the possibility of ‘insider alternatives’
Nana Asma'u (1793-1865), a daughter of the Sokoto jihad, wrote prolifically and with considerable impact within the Islamic community of Usman dan Fodio. This community was to change radically the religious and social formation of Hausaland. The jihad at the beginning of the nineteenth century imprinted Islam upon mainstream Hausa culture and brought it in from the margins. Asma'u was an eyewitness to the genesis and development of the movement, …
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Nana Asma'u, her elegies and the possibility of ‘insider alternatives’
Nana Asma'u (1793-1865), a daughter of the Sokoto jihad, wrote prolifically and with considerable impact within the Islamic community of Usman dan Fodio. This community was to change radically the religious and social formation of Hausaland. The jihad at the beginning of the nineteenth century imprinted Islam upon mainstream Hausa culture and brought it in from the margins. Asma'u was an eyewitness to the genesis and development of the movement, …
African Studies and Geopolitics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Elegiac (1 work) · Elegy (1 work) · Hausa (1 work) · History (1 work) · Ideology (1 work) · Islam (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work)