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Mohammed Umar, Amina.(Book review)
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March 22, 2008
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- Janis, Michael
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Edinburgh University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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MOHAMMED UMAR, Amina. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press (pb. $19.95-978 15922 1404 4). 2005, 243 pp.
Queen Amina of Zazzau, today Zaria, was a warrior queen who governed the Hausa in the sixteenth century. Mohammed Umar's contemporary Amina, called Queen Amina by her sisters-in-arms, is also among the elite in northern Nigeria, but she must rebel against the corruption of her class and against the oppression of her gender. It is above all the Marxist paradigms of social and class struggle that shape the form of Umar's narrative, resulting in a political blueprint for Africa from a feminist perspective that envisions a 'better world' (p. 243) at the close of the novel.
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