Nigeria is amazing!

It is not true that many hausa or fulani muslim women are "confined to their homes only allowed to interact with their husbands or other women in their families" maybe that happened in the past. I am a muslim hausa woman working as a community physician in northern Nigeria. From a study I recently conducted I found most of the hausa women had some level of formal or informal education. In fact some of the islamiyya schools(informal school) in one of the villages we conducted research in last year has a section for married women from all ages.In my practice I come across a lot of women who can read and write in hausa even without formal education. If I am able to get funding I have an interest in conducting a community survey to assess the literacy level as well as health seeking behaviour to explore how to disseminate health information to women in the community.

Dr. Abubakar, many thanks for sharing your experiences and understanding with us and our visitors and our deepest apologies if we have misrepresented the experiences of Hausa and Fulani women. At I.M.O.W., we do work from the place that knowledge is co-constructed and am very happy to have visitors like you who clarify and build our understanding - and showcasing - of women's lives and experiences around the world. The source that we used for that particular statement was attempting to draw a contrast between the living conditions of women from different ethnic group for several decades after the colonial period. I do wonder if it made reference to "the past," as you suggested, or, more likely a leftover imposition of colonial rule. Thank you, again, for clarifying!