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Article: Identity, performance, and secrecy: gendered life and the "modern" in northern Nigeria.
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- Feminist Studies
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- September 22, 2007
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THE RECENT REIMPOSITION OF Islamic criminal law in northern Nigeria has forcefully brought gender issues in the region to international attention. Sentences of death by stoning handed down to Safiya Hussaini and Amina Lawal and the sentence of flogging to Bariya Magazau (all convicted of adultery) have garnered global press coverage and condemnation. Some of this international scrutiny has been strikingly inaccurate, unhelpful, and anti-Muslim: as the northern Nigerian scholar and human rights activist Ayesha Imam has argued, "[H]uman rights are not the exclusive province of international human rights law or international human rights organizations. Human rights concepts ...
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