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Off to eat dinner and have drinks! QQ! (Taken with instagram)

Off to eat dinner and have drinks! QQ! (Taken with instagram)

epiphanyesque:

But…. seriously. *tears*

royaltorch:

(Wiping tears away) Dang it lol

(Source: stephnasaurus, via aripiphany)

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muslimwomeninhistory: Nana Asma’u (1793-1834) was the daughter of Usman dan Fodio, founder of Sokoto Caliphate which was one of the most powerful kingdom’s in northern Africa of the time. For some, Asma’u represents the education and independence that is possible for women under Islam and remains a model for African feminists into the present. Erudite and well versed in Arabic, Greek, and Latin classics and fluent in Arabic, Fulfulde, Hausa, and Tamacheq, Asma’u was reputed to be a leading scholar in the most influential Muslim state in West Africa. She represented the number of highly educated Muslim women of the time. Bearing witness to the Fulani Jihad (1804-1810) in which her father conquered Nigeria and Cameroon, she recorded her reactions in The Journal.  Asma’u also left an impressive corpus of poetry which is comprised of historical narratives, elegies, laments, and admonition, which became tools for teaching men and women the principles of the caliphate. Later, she became her brother’s advisor when he took the caliphate and according to contemporary sources, Asma’u debated with governors, scholars, and princes. Asma’u was also influential on women’s education during the caliphate. Beginning in 1830, she formed a group of female teachers who journeyed throughout the caliphate, educating women.  Becoming symbols of the new state, these female teachers, or jajis, used the writing of Asma’u and other Sufi scholars to train women from all areas, including poor and rural regions. This educational project began to integrate the pagan portions of the newly conquered empire with the existing Muslim state and culture. Today, in northern Nigeria, Islamic women’s organization, schools, and meeting halls are frequently named in her honor. With the republication of her works, she has become a rallying point for African women for the cause of women’s education. -WISE Muslim Women More Information: 1.) Nana Asma’u and the Scholarly Tradition 2.) Nana Asma’u Tradtion: An Intellectual Movement and a Symbol of Women Rights in Islam During the 19th Century DanFodio’s Islamic Reform.

muslimwomeninhistory:

Nana Asma’u (1793-1834) was the daughter of Usman dan Fodio, founder of Sokoto Caliphate which was one of the most powerful kingdom’s in northern Africa of the time. For some, Asma’u represents the education and independence that is possible for women under Islam and remains a model for African feminists into the present.

Erudite and well versed in Arabic, Greek, and Latin classics and fluent in Arabic, Fulfulde, Hausa, and Tamacheq, Asma’u was reputed to be a leading scholar in the most influential Muslim state in West Africa. She represented the number of highly educated Muslim women of the time. Bearing witness to the Fulani Jihad (1804-1810) in which her father conquered Nigeria and Cameroon, she recorded her reactions in The Journal.  Asma’u also left an impressive corpus of poetry which is comprised of historical narratives, elegies, laments, and admonition, which became tools for teaching men and women the principles of the caliphate.

Later, she became her brother’s advisor when he took the caliphate and according to contemporary sources, Asma’u debated with governors, scholars, and princes.

Asma’u was also influential on women’s education during the caliphate. Beginning in 1830, she formed a group of female teachers who journeyed throughout the caliphate, educating women.  Becoming symbols of the new state, these female teachers, or jajis, used the writing of Asma’u and other Sufi scholars to train women from all areas, including poor and rural regions. This educational project began to integrate the pagan portions of the newly conquered empire with the existing Muslim state and culture.

Today, in northern Nigeria, Islamic women’s organization, schools, and meeting halls are frequently named in her honor. With the republication of her works, she has become a rallying point for African women for the cause of women’s education.

-WISE Muslim Women

More Information:

1.) Nana Asma’u and the Scholarly Tradition

2.) Nana Asma’u Tradtion: An Intellectual Movement and a Symbol of Women Rights in Islam During the 19th Century DanFodio’s Islamic Reform.

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My GORGEOUS cousin vintageblackglamour: Della Reese in the 1950s.

My GORGEOUS cousin

vintageblackglamour:

Della Reese in the 1950s.

black-culture:

I need to see this. People of color in general need to see this. When will we stop struggling against the impact of oppression? When are ALL our societies - of latino, asian (east, southwest etc), black - going to finally be able to rid ourselves of this prominent normalization of a White discourse of our society??

I believe that only when we as people of color are able to cast off white notions of social norms (living, beauty, interactions) will there be the respect that comes with a meeting of the minds. Not a constant, impossible game of catch up that breaks young people’s hearts and spirits. 

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19 seconds of harmony and lyrics by me… Sabrina

Howard University's Official Tumblr: October is Black Movie Month in the RTVF Department

howarduniversity:

  • Friday, October 14, 2011, 12-4 pm, Screening Room West, C. B. Powell Bldg

Film screening of Lackawanna Blues directed by George Wolfe and Love Jones directed by Theodore Witcher.

  • Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 3:30 pm. Rm. 118, C. B. Powell Building

Lecture by Bradford Young, MFA,…

Moses, Meet Steve…

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