JAMB - History (2002 - No. 7)
The Bayajidda tradition suggests that
Hausa ancestors came from Arabia
women exercised political power in pre-Islamic Hausaland
the introduction of Islam led to the formation of the Hausa city states
The Queen of Daura was the first to embrace Islam.
Forklaring
It indicated that Daura was ruled by a
queen who offered to many Bayajidda
in gratitude for killing the sacred snake
Sarki that hitherto allowed her subject
to draw water from the only well in the
town only on Fridays
queen who offered to many Bayajidda
in gratitude for killing the sacred snake
Sarki that hitherto allowed her subject
to draw water from the only well in the
town only on Fridays