... financing health service delivery northern Nigeria Although Nigeria is an economic giant in sub-Saharan Africa, ¹ it lags behind many other African countries in terms of health outcome indicators. For example, the mortality rate in 2017 of children <5 y of age was 100 per 1000 live births...

... performing high risk communities persistently poor performing LGAs Northern Nigeria Poliomyelitis has remained endemic in 3 countries in 2 regions of the World Health Organization (WHO), resulting in continued shifting of the target date for global eradication. By the end of 2011, polio remained a global...

... in the reception and implementation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Zaria, Kaduna State, in Northern Nigeria in order to address the question of why polio cases persist in this area. It also considers how changes the GPEI program in Nigeria, specifically broader community involvement...

...This chapter introduces northern Nigeria as the regional context for the emergence of both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements of reform. It shows again that neither movement of reform was monolithic but characterized by multiple splits. The chapter presents Abubakar Gumi as the first major...

... Uthmān Hausaland Qur’an Khaṭṭāb ʾUmar b al Lugard Frederick Native Courts Proclamation Act constitution of Nigeria Gender at war with Islam “unthinkable ” the Amina Lawal Sunnah Sokoto Caliphate Sunnaic paradigm Northern Nigeria Nigeria Why did the people of Hausaland—the twelve states...

...This chapter is an ethnography of Eltantawi’s research in Northern Nigeria conducted in 2010. It describes and analyzes her conversations with key players in Amina Lawal’s trial. These conversations illuminate how central the Islamic identity is in Northern Nigeria, and critically examines what...

..., the “Ahlussunnah” (People of the tradition of the Prophet) of contemporary Kano, northern Nigeria. Of these preachers, roughly half are graduates of the Islamic University of Medina (IUM). By looking at leading figures within the network, the chapter shows how exposure to new thinkers and texts at the university...

...This chapter provides a history of the rise of Islam in west Africa, in particular to Hausaland, which is today’s Northern Nigeria. The chapter then concentrates on the Sokoto Jihad and subsequent caliphate led by Uthman Dan Fodio. The chapter traces his intellectual history, highlighting his...

... ethnographic fieldwork in Northern Nigeria, premodern and modern Nigerian history, histories of Hausaland’s colonial encounter, the early legalization of stoning in Islam, Islamic legal theory, and contemporary debates around gender and geopolitics to piece together the histories that gave rise to latest...

...This chapter follows Norman Anderson’s attempts to foster legal reform in Northern Nigeria in the late 1950s by criticizing indirect rule and appealing to reforms associated with the Arab world. Despite his criticism of imperialism, Anderson developed contacts in Britain’s Colonial Office...

... Nigeria). Arabic languages northern Nigeria trading links trans Saharan trade routes Borno Caliphate Hausa states Fodio Usman Dan Islamic jihad Islamic social movements Qadiriyyah Brotherhood Sokoto Caliphate Usman Dan Fodio jihad Fulfulde language Bello Muhammad Sultan of Sokoto colonial...

...’, such as women's education and work, used in standardized surveys. Ortner S Rosaldo M women's status Mason K Whyte M Rogers S Nigeria Williams J Tanima H MacLeod A Cooper B Callaway B dan Fodio S Mack B Delaney C gender ideology Hausa Islam northern Nigeria respectability seclusion women's...