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Uani Is a backyard , often with an enclosure traditionally designated as women's space of exclusion and safety from men's spying eyes , It is often associated with homes. There
ua n (nyua), U-N-, mzizi mauaNyuma ya Nyumba, Uzio Context: Relating to Swahili Homes. Traditionally a backyard, often with an enclosure, and designated as women’s space (of ‘seclusion’ and ‘safety’
ua n (nyua), U-N-, mzizi mauaNyuma ya Nyumba, Uzio Muktadha: Inahusu nyumbani Uswahilini. Kimila, uani kawaida kuna uzio, na pametengwa kama sehemu maalum ya wanawake (ya ‘faragha’ na ‘salama’ mbali
Asteria Malinzi Baridi la Ufukweni, 2021Picha, video na sauti.(Video Poem was produced in collaboration with Ngollo Mlengeya) Umekwishaonywa. Mchecheto usiomithilika unaikodolea milele zote zinavyotiririka mithili ya vijito. Umekwishaonywa; kwa wepesi
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This novel explores life, love, friendship, loss and the effects of extremist politics and religion on everyday life in Northern Nigeria. Dantala lives in Bayan Layi, Nigeria and studies in a Sufi Quranic school. By chance he meets gang leader Banda, a nominal Muslim. Dantala is thrust into a world with fluid rules and casual violence. In the aftermath of presidential elections he runs away and ends up living in a Salafi mosque. Slowly and through the hurdles of adolescence, he embraces Salafism as preached by his new benefactor, Sheikh Jamal. Dantala falls in love with Sheikh’s daughter, Aisha, and tries to court her within the acceptable limits of a conservative setting. All the while, Sheikh struggles to deal with growing jihadist extremism within his own rank
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