Sada Malumfashi
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Okay. Something is weird with the sun in Kaduna today
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Stills from ‘Hawsawi’ a documentary I created in Jeddah on Saudi citizens who trace their roots to Hausa populations from West Africa through movement of Hausa people who settled in Saudi trying to escape European colonization in the late 19th century. Premiere coming soon!
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Police shot multiple live bullets at protesters in Kaduna. Justification: destruction of properties while the protest was ongoing. My cousin died on the scene. There is a video, but I cannot bring myself to watch. Allah ya isa.
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Bandits will kill you in this country. And the government will also kill you!
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I still don’t understand this bigoted rhetoric that has been ongoing. APC only won Borno, Jigawa and Zamfara states across the 13 combined states in the north-west and north-east. Maybe you need the proper education to understand this.
Give the North proper education and they'll reconsider their voting choices.
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My essay ‘The Sex Lives of Northern Nigeria’ exploring pleasure, sex and self-censorship in the North is up on This Is Africa.
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Palestinian-Nigerian. Bernawi - loosely meaning from Borno - is one of the three biggest Afro-Arabian families together with Hawsawi (Hausa) and Fellatah (Fulani).
just learned that the first Palestinian woman to organize an operation in Israel was a Black woman named Fatima Bernawi 🇵🇸❤️ Palestine will be free!
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In this essay for
@republicjournal
I chronicle writing about feminism in the early 90s and the subversion of patriarchy by Hausa women writers.
Zata Iya: A History of Hausa Feminist Literature | The Republic
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SUG Presidents in the 80,90s and early 2000s were dressed as comrades and revolutionists. A mirror of the society they lived in of unionism, anti-apartheid, anti-military dictatorship. Since the 2010s student unionism now mirrors ‘thieving’ politicians and grandiosity.
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A political appointment in Nigeria is presumed as a largesse. A grand turbaning, a win for the individual and their associates. The work to be done is secondary.
Arrival of the new NAHCON Chairman/CEO Alhaji Jalal Ahmad Arabi to Hajj House Abuja as he resumed duty today Wednesday 18th October 2023…
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Ibrahim Alheri joined us on Friday. May your benevolence spread through the world. We call him Amir, like the prince that he is ❤️
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Muhammad Gulani
@thegulanto
is the curator of Northern Nigeria's first campus based literary festival
@Abufest
He is a final year student of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He has been getting death threats. His crime is providing a space to talk about sexual abuse
#ABUFEST19
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Continuous and constant patronage economy. This could be done in a whole different way and system, but no, taxpayers money has to be delivered like a gift, you have to remember who hand delivered those envelopes to you. Madugu and his Son. They want to own your conscience.
This morning, Sen. Kwankwaso and Gov. Abba K. Yusuf while sharing pocket money (dollars ) to Kano Sponsored students who are departing to India for Msc.
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Reading this on the
@nytimes
and being super duper proud of my dear
@FakhuusHashim
as always, then coming back to this platform to see the quite scary and hateful attacks. We are such a violent people, especially towards women, while hiding behind religion and it’s so disgusting.
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Today we took the Compound Dance Production to the streets in Kaduna! This is just the first step of using dance to re-imagine and redefine Northern Nigeria through artistic and cultural practices.
It was amazing to see the people, the community come out and embrace us!
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Random fact: I still have never read the English version of Animal Farm. Everything I know about it is from this Hausa version. Same thing with Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, I’ve only ever read the Hausa version ‘Matsolon Attajiri’.
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For my next trick, I will be spending 3 years in Las Vegas, writing ✍🏾
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I heard there is a Super Bowl coming to the neighborhood ? 😅
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When Kaduna was bleeding it didn’t discriminate based on religion, age or gender. We lost loved ones, we lost properties, we were shattered, we were traumatized. To those trying to instigate the divide and violence yet again, shame on you!
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Also, why should anyone have a favourite politician?
If your favorite politician is better than mine, why is our Nigerian experience both the same - terrible?
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, I spoke to
@Dj_Abba
and other musicians and producers across northern Nigeria on how they have creatively employed various strategies to continue making music with little government support. Have a read!
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Dahiru Idris’ Hausa translation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
Published 1980
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If you don’t want NLC to ask for unrealistic minimum wage, make your politicians make the current wage livable. It’s not NLC’s job to make the economy work.
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I just realized the privilege of growing up in Muslim majority Northern Nigeria meant I never knew the struggle of having to assert my religious believes to anyone. It just flows. I'm a Muslim. The respect of my religious rights was ensured as part of the majority.
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Appalled to hear of the news of Maryam's arrest. I am so concerned as
@Ice131Queen
is also a known sickle cell disease patient and advocate. She needs all the care she can get, and needs to be released immediately.
#FreeMaryamAwaisu
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It was exciting judging the over 400 entries for the
@bbchausa
Hikayata Short Story Competition for women. There is an abundance of talent in creative writing coming through from young women in northern Nigeria
#BBCHausaHikayata20
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Sada Malumfashi launches Hausa International Book and Art Festival in Kaduna
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If I meet any Nigerian again and they ask me if I am from the far north, in turn, I will ask them if they are from the Deep South.
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Funny thing is, without the Labor strike, the Federal Government would NEVER have increased the minimum wage
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Random white Alaska Airlines agent scans my boarding pass, and beams, “Malumfashi!!! That’s in Katsina. I’ve been there.”
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After
@KabaFest
, next stop is Usedom, the Baltic Sea island dividing Germany and Poland for the Arts Festivals Summit of the European Festivals Association.
Delighted to participate and talk about
@hausabaf
and
@OpenArts_
and art programming in this beautiful seaside resort.
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In this in-depth feature for Al-Jazeera
@AJEnglish
I explore Nigeria’s railway people and their communities alongside the Abuja-Kaduna rail link.
Nigeria’s railway people: Life alongside a high-speed rail link | Nigeria News | Al Jazeera
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Omg he brought his white friend to talk sense to them 😭
Bill Gates, Aliko Dangote attended today's FEC Meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja
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Onboard the Kaduna-Abuja train 🚂 as another locomotive from Abuja swished passed us going towards Kaduna to the delight of peeping passengers, a passenger choruses excited: “I no dey hear anything, for this I dey vote Buhari again.”
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A lot of condescending and bigoted tweets about northern Nigeria. Some, sadly from people one rates highly. Very disappointing!
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Kaduna > Abuja > Berlin.
Its been a roller coaster 24 hours and I feel plucked away. I'm definitely having a
#KabaFest19
fear of missing out. There is so much fun in Kaduna whenever there is
@KabaFest
and this year is so lit! But, other adventures beckon!
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Anybody - Burna Boy playing in a Starbucks Cafe in Prague ☺️
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Settling in as a Fellow of Reporters Without Borders Germany.
Hello Berlin 😊
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I composed a poem for her everyday for 120 consecutive days.
does male yearning exist? do guys wait for girls to reply? do they think of them often during the day?
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Wrote an anonymous expose on a national daily about corrupt practices in a federal hospital as a pharmacy intern. Ministry of health officials visited immediately. I joined others to gossip about who the author is and feign surprise too 👀
Random question but please indulge me:
What’s the most interesting thing you did/worked on during an internship or as an intern (in Nigeria)?
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The calmness of Christmas morning in Zurich through my camera.
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The Middle East Eye did a feature piece on my documentary
‘Hawsawi: Uncovering the history of Saudi Arabia’s Afro-Arab Hausa community
We will be screening the documentary today at
@hausabaf
Thanks to
@adamajmunu
for the brilliant work.
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Providing digital security training to this awesome group of journalism students. Lets do this.
#DigiSec
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We are ready for launch 🚀 people!
is live. Show this writing hustle some love 😄
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Three brand new coaches added to the Abuja - Kaduna train to ease congestion. A good step so far 👏🏿
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In Nigeria, if bandits and terrorists don’t kill you, the army will kill you. Tragic news from the deaths in Tudun Biri. We only wish they might get justice from the injustice of Nigeria even in death.
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We were not her family. We were her subjects. Colonized. Our Emirs were the agents of that subjugation.
Senior royal family members from house Windsor have repeatedly visited Nigeria; often kano. To not recognize this will be an inaccurate account as we all know how dear her majesty’s commonwealth family meant to her.
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Super happy about this 😁
Delighted to receive a British Academy grant to train women academics from Nigeria and Niger working in the field of Hausa studies over the next two years as part of our work with
@hausabaf
Exciting news! We received the British Academy International Writing Workshops award to amplify women's voices in Hausa cultural studies through a writing and publishing workshop for early career women academics from West Africa.
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"This is a collection that sits as a guide, but yet is a metaphor of itself, a metaphor of ironies , guilt and emotions. The words make you delighted and wounded at the same time, for the present is the future."
An excerpt from my introduction for this wonderful chapbook!!
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Throwback to 2019 with the alumni of
@YELFFoundation
Manuscript Writing Workshop. The three years I spent with the foundation, planning and curating literary events and workshops, and bringing some of the best literary minds to Kaduna continue to provide me with immense joy.
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They are dragging Northerners. It is not enough. Now they are even dragging Lord Lugard from his grave. Poor something 😂
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Genuinely interested in data about alcoholic beverages sales across states in Nigeria nested with revenue generated from other commodities. I don’t understand why the (very important) VAT discussion continues to serve as a means to throw bigoted jabs.
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We got the grant!!! 😁
Going on for the Hausa Kiswahili Festival of Arts (HAKIFA) Project interview for a grant in a bit. A yi mana dua!
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Curating the
@GoldWestAfrica1
#GoldDurbarKano
art exhibition with the Deputy Governor and the Minister of Mines and Steel Development. A fusion of art, culture and the future of the gold value chain in West Africa.
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I am co-administering the Aminiya-Trust Hausa Short Story Writing Contest founded to provide a space for stories in Hausa language. We are delighted to release a longlist of 20 stories
Daily Trust - Aminiya-Trust releases 2020 Hausa story contest longlist
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I will be a guest at the Abuja Literary Festival
@alitfest
this August. Looking forward to the wonderful conversations!
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Delighted to introduce the 3rd edition of the Hausa International Books And Arts Festival (HIBAF23) with the theme "Hausa Diaspora" looking at the movement, lives and worlds of the Hausas as a people and as a language all over the world. Stay tuned for more info!!
#HIBAF23
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I will be participating in Columbia University Graduate Programs in International Affairs Studies panel on International Journalism and Religion as part of religion and journalism in Africa grant from ACL/Luce.
You can join by registering here:
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Hello 2021
Bye 2020
Top 4 Pictures of 2020 based on pure vibes ☺️
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Today I finished Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and that book tore me into bits and pieces. When I say I don't like reading novels, you people don't understand. This is why!
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In Switzerland for the next two weeks on a research trip supported by the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia, surveying decolonial discourses in the programming of literary events and activities. Whose Narratives are being Curated?
Say hi if you’re nearby 👋🏾
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Thankful to
@GI_Nigeria
and
@syltfoundation
for this opportunity to work on my writing for three months on the beautiful German Island of Sylt in the North Sea.
#writerinresidence
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This year's edition of
@KabaFest
is going to be lit. I will be joining my faves on the guest list. It's a thread already 😁
@AishaSalaudeen
@thefaridaadamu
@daisyodey
@FrancesOgamba
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100 artists and cultural practitioners were awarded this year’s
@princeclausfund
awards. 2 from Nigeria, both are my Kaduna people Ochai Ogaba and
@TJBenson_
I am super proud of the amazing work we are doing in Kaduna and the need for more local support of the cultural ecosystem.
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Delighted to be honored by HIASFEST with the Golden Award as Nigerian Art Administrator of the year 2023. Looking forward to doing more work in the arts!
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My conversation with the wonderful team at the
@republicjournal
on my writing as well as Hausa literature. Enjoy!
Interview with Nigerian Author - Sada Malumfashi | The Republic
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Short story:
Carried well fried red stew in one of these on Sallah day to the neighbors.
Arrived, and saw my crush glowing in her outfit.
Tripped on a stone and poured the stew all over myself. My crisp white Kaftan became a red slaughter house!
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I have a non-fiction piece on 'Literature of Hausa Women' on
@Sarabamag
Magazine. Download it here and enjoy free
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In this piece for Al Jazeera,
@AJEnglish
I explore how a police unit established to combat armed robbery became synonymous with unlawful killings, torture and extortion.
#EndSARS
#NIGERIAPREVAILS
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The world has no idea what is happening in North Korea and yet won’t stop guessing. Lmao!
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Settling in Jeddah which will be home for the next 6 weeks as a curatorial resident, working out of the historical area of Al-Balad, a UNESCO world heritage site founded in the 7th century. Looking forward to exploring migration and identity to be exhibited as part of
@hausabaf
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Please and please, this is not the time to use this opportunity to visit relatives and catch up on lost time. Please, it’s not a public holiday. This is a health emergency!!!
KDSG has announced extraordinary preventive measures against coronavirus: Civil servants from Level 12 and below are to stay at home for the next 30 days, except for those on essential service; only sellers of food & medicines can open their shops in the markets from tomorrow
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Forget Murja and Daurawa. Develop the football pyramid and economy properly in northern Nigeria and you have a booming economy, lesser crime, and more jobs! . There is always an audience!
Nigeria's 43-year-old Rabiu Ali is the oldest active Player in Africa.
At age 43, he has 7 league goals this season.
He is the all-time Top Scorer in the Nigerian League with 114 goals. He is the Captain of Kano Pillars, and he is nicknamed Pele.
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Nigeria is annoying. I used this same train during its free ride period under Buhari. Now they are saying Tinubu commissioned it.
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Exciting nomination for the Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity in gender. This wouldn’t be possible without the amazing works of
@FakhuusHashim
@hassana_maina
@WaasiShaffii
@sadytaheer
which I explore. To the women champions of Hausa literature. Keep the fire burning!
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Please if you are in Samaru, find Gulani and make sure he's okay, both physically and mentally. He needs our love in this trying time. The
@Abufest
team, all of them need our love and support. Please reach out to them. Console them. Love trumps hate!
#ABUFEST19
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"How's the writing going?"
"Oh really well. I'm at page 47."
"That's great. Waccu writing?"
"Page numbers."
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It hasn’t even been up to a year since you zealots attacked and successfully stopped the Ahmadu Bello University Arts Festival from holding, due to a panel tagged "On the issue of Consent" to discuss sexual abuse and the
#ArewaMeToo
conversation.
#ABUFEST19
We haven’t forgotten!
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Picked up my contributor copy of this beautiful book at
@iKontinental
Taxi Drivers Who Drive Us Nowhere and other Travel Stories by
@BakwaBooks
is an amazing collection. I'm so glad to be a part of it!
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Professor Abubakar Sule Sani of ABU Zaria has been awarded almost 1 million pounds by the British Academy Global Professorship towards research of the past and present of African history through archaeology and museum collections.
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Open Arts wins the Creativity Pioneers Award!!!
I am really happy to see validation of the work we do at
@OpenArts_
selected with 53 other organizations addressing the world’s pressing issues through creativity and culture.
Looking forward to doing even more with this grant!
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TASTE OF MEMORY: By Sada Malumfashi -
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This is interesting. The minimum wage in Benin Republic is 52k CFA, that’s about 130k Naira. If Nigerians had proper command of French, our working class could be trooping into Niger Republic and Benin Republic for a better quality of life.
N100k is now 39K CFA. Cotonou and Togo are no longer the cheap places you can go flex. They are now higher cost locations for Nigerians.
As you were, folks.
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I revere Tj’s writing so much. So when he sends me messages saying I am a gifted writer, and he is in awe of my skill, it is all the validation I need. I read Tj’s works and I scream all the time like the fan that I am. Like, I am so glad we are of the same generation.
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Excited with this stills from the
@thecritics001
on a short documentary I am working on, using genetic data to follow the footprints of the Hausa community from about 60,000 years ago towards understanding the ancestry of the Hausa people.
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How is a graduate of Pharmacy from the best ranking University in Nigeria, and the best graduating student from her State been deemed illiterate because of a well justified ICPC appointment? Maybe because she's a young woman from Northern Nigeria? 🤷🏾♂️
Do better please!!!
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