IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY (AJHA )

E-ISSN 2579-048X
P-ISSN 2695-1851
VOL. 7 NO. 1 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/ajha.v7.no1.2023.pg42.74

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Female Education in Contemporary North-East; With a Special Reference to Yobe, Borno and Adamawa States, Nigeria: Impediments and Prospects

Dr. Kabir Mohammed, Mr. Shamsuddeen Bawale, Co- Researcher: Mr. Yusuf Abdul Jarma

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Abstract

This study titled “Female Education In Contemporary North-East; with A Special Reference To Yobe, Borno And Adamawa States, Nigeria: Impediments And Prospects has been established to examine the inception, growth, nature, essence extent and impact of its acquisition on human existence and society of the areas under review, as well as the positive and negative development associated with it aimed at highlighting some of the major obstacles confronting our subject matter of study for an outstanding solution to the problems. This signifies that it is an intellectual attempt to portray what the concept of Female Education means from gender point of view. In the course of conducting the study both interviews, published and unpublished source were interacted with. In addition to the above, both quantitative and qualitative techniques for presentation and analysis were adopted and applied into use. In the first instance, the study argues that there was neither evidence of the emergence of female scholars nor schools established for female education in the Northern Emirates, regardless of the studied areas until after the 1804 Sokoto Jihad (Islamic Revolutionary Movement), which brought about the formation of Yantaru Institute for Female Religious Education in the Sokoto Caliphate founded by Nana Asma’u Bin-Fodio’s biological daughter. The study also stresses that by 1903, this brand of education was not the priority of the British Colonial Administration but Political Power consolidation for the satisfaction of their multiple interests, purely for political, economic and social advancement of the metropolitan Europe, a full scale project inwardly executed under the pretext of exploitation of human and material resources of the colonized nations. The study observes that by 1930’s this brand of education started gathering momentum in our studied states and the North at large. It is against this backdrop, the idea of forming collaborative partnership betw

Female, Education, Contemporary, North, East, States, Impediments, prospect.

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