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Mohammed Umar, Amina.(Book review)

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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