Saude Abdullahi - Aliyu

Saude Abdullahi-Aliyu born in 1952, is a princess of the Fulani royal family of Wudil, a Nigerian educator and farmer, she is the first woman of Kano State descent to hold the position of a Federal Principal and a Federal Director of Education at the Federal Ministry of Education and the first Woman University graduate from Wudil Local Government of Kano State in North-West, Nigeria. She held the position of President Muslim Students Society of Nigeria at Women Teachers College, Kano.^[1]

Family[]

Saude Abdullahi - Aliyu was born in Kano Emirate, on 25 September 1952, her father was a village head at Wudil called Sarkin Fulani Abdullahi-Maikano ibn Mahmoud, her paternal grandfather Shaykh al Islam Mahmoud was an Allamah and her paternal great-grandfather Dawaki Bello was the village head of Wudil, a fulani from the Torankawa clan (Torodbe),^[2] the clan that leads the Sokoto Caliphate holding the title of Sultan of Sokoto and Amir al-Mu'minin, of the Fulani Empire (consisting of the Fulbe Jihad States of which Sokoto was the headquarters),^[3] while her mother Hajiya Rabi bint Shehu-Usman ibn Abdussalam (Inna) was a maternal grand daughter of a Qadi at Gano called Alkali Isiyaka through her mother called Hama from Gano in Dawakin Kudu Local government.^[4] The Torankawa clan are partly Arabs and partly Fulani as stated by Abdullahi dan Fodio, brother of Usman dan Fodio who claimed that their clan of Torankawa are part Fulani, and part Arabs, the Torankawa claimed to descent from the Arabs through Uqba ibn Nafi who was an Arab Muslim of the Umayyad branch of the Quraysh, and hence, a member of the family of the Prophet, Uqba ibn Nafi allegedly married a Fulani woman called Bajjumangbu through which the Torodbe family of Usman dan Fodio descended.^[5] Caliph Muhammed Bello the son of Usman dan Fodio in his book Infaq al-Mansur claimed descent from Prophet Muhammad through his paternal grandmother's lineage called Hawwa (mother of Usman dan Fodio), Alhaji Muhammadu Junaidu, Wazirin Sokoto, a scholar of Fulani history, restated the claims of Shaykh Abdullahi bin Fodio in respect of the Danfodio family been part Arabs and part Fulani, while Ahmadu Bello in his autobiography written after independence replicated Caliph's Muhammadu Bello claim of descent from the Arabs through Usman Danfodio's mother, taking the historical account the family of Shehu dan Fodio are partly Arabs and partly Fulani who culturally assimilated with the Hausas and can be described as Hausa-Fulani Arabs.^[6] Prior to the beginning of the 1804 Jihad the category Fulani was not important for the Torankawa (Torodbe), their literature reveals the ambivalence they had defining Torodbe-Fulani relationships. They adopted the language of the Fulbe and much ethos while maintaining a separate identity.^[7] The Toronkawa clan at first recruited members from all levels of Sūdānī society, particularly the poorer people.^[8] Toronkawa clerics included people whose origin was Fula, Wolof, Mande, Hausa and Berber. However, they spoke the Fula language, married into Fulbe families, and became the Fulbe scholarly caste.^[9]

Education[]

She holds a Grade II Teachers Certificate from Women Teachers College Kano, Nigeria Certificate in Education English / Islamic Studies from Advanced Teachers College, Institute of Education Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and a Bachelors of Arts English/Islamic Studies from Bayero University Kano.^[10]

Career[]

She did her teaching practice at Dorayi Primary School and Kwalli Primary School in 1971 and 1972, she worked in the Kano Local Education Authority as a Grade II Teacher from 1973 to 1979 at Shekara Boarding Primary School and Magwan Primary School, she served her National Youth Service from 1979 to 1980 at Women Teachers College Kano and worked at the Kano State Ministry of Education from 1984 to 1995, as a Classroom teacher at Women Arabic Teachers College Goron Dutse and Government Senior Secondary School Gwammaja II, she was a Senior Mistress at Government Girls College Dala, Vice Principal Women Arabic Teachers College Goron Dutse and Principal Shekara Government Girls Secondary School, at the Federal Government level she worked at the Federal Ministry of Education from 1995 to 2014, she was a Principal of Federal Government Girls College Kazaure, Federal Government Girls College Minjibir, Inspector of English Language Federal Inspectorate Service Kano, Co-ordinating Inspector Federal Inspectorate Service Kano, Principal Federal Government Girls College Potiskum, Principal Federal Government College Kiyawa, Director of Education Federal Ministry of Education.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16]}

Marriage[]

She married Alhaji Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila in 1973 and the marriage is blessed with seven children.^[17]

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