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How to be a ‘true Northerner’
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The Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, said in her famous TEDx speech, The Danger of the Single Story, that the problem with stereotypes is “not that they are untrue, but they are incomplete; they make one story become the only story.”
I remembered the author’s statement after a lady friend of mine from Kano, complained about how unsettled she felt when people told her she doesn’t behave like a Hausa lady, a statement the people who gave it probably expected a thank-you response from her, or a gesture that represents it. But she understood that it is a statement that holds within itself, the wealth of stereotypes about how Hausa women are expected to be, to behave.

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