A History of Hausa Feminist Writings

In the same year, her older brother, Murtala Ramat Muhammed, went to England to attend the Joint Service Staff College and quickly rose to the rank of a Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army. He would later go on to become the Head of State of Nigeria after a military coup, while Balaraba—just one year and eight months into the marriage—was kicked out of her marital home, rejected by a husband who claimed he was no longer interested because she was too much of a child. ‘He did not know I was a child until he had defiled me, after he had gotten what he wanted’, lamented Balaraba while on a panel discussion at the 2017 Kaduna Book and Arts Festival.