4Nana Asma’u (1793-1864)
The newest daughter of your own originator of your own Sokoto Caliphate, an enthusiastic Islamic Sunni Caliphate when you look at the West Africa, Asma’u received a primary-group studies and is actually fluent into the five dialects-Arabic, Fula, Hausa, and you can Tamacheq Taureg-and literate when you look at the three. However, the girl poetry very lay her to your chart, to some extent while the lots of her poems advocated for women leadership and you will ladies’ liberties. In fact, Asma’u made use of her very own poems given that a teaching equipment, studies a large system of females once the instructors within her indigenous Nigeria.
