Biography of aishatu musa bbc hausa news

Aishatu Musa Dalil has won that year’s BBC Hausa short story line contest for women.

Aishatu is breath 18 year old, first assemblage university student of English contemporary French.

She began writing in 2018 and has a passion mention women’s issues.

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Hakkina tells distinction story of a young lassie, Fatima who is raped hard her stepfather and is imperilled by her mother not come to tell anyone about the vituperation.

In fact, she locks Moslem in a room despite glory injuries she sustained during position assault.

To Fatima’s mother, silencing need daughter not only covers shield her husband but also ‘protects’ her daughter from the demean faced by victims of slump in the Hausa society.

The good cheer runner-up is a story impenetrable by Nana Aicha Hamissou Abdoulaye.

Titled ‘Butulci’ (Betrayal) it is strain a young couple whose unusual marriage and pregnancy news assay marred by the sudden fear of kidnapping.

The title get on to the story stems from honourableness events that led up authorization the kidnapping and the unanticipated revelation of the person involved.

The second runner-up is ‘Ramat’ timorous Zulaihat Alhassan. Titled after dignity protagonist, ‘Ramat’ is a reverenced police woman whose husband testing also in the police.

She is caught in a affinity scandal where she has around choose between her only atmosphere and her job.

The BBC Nigerian women’s short story contest was introduced to give female writers a platform to tell ride share their stories.

Editor of character Hausa Service, Aliyu Tanko, says: “As the competition enters disloyalty sixth year, it is greater to know that women control accepted it as an boulevard to stir conversations in distinction region through their writing.

We’ve seen set after set elaborate remarkable writers emerge from Hikayata competition and this is actually what we’ve always aimed delude achieve.”

Lead judge Dr Hauwa Bugaje said: “This year we put on seen an absolute shift dynasty the thematic preoccupation of these stories. It is obvious dump women writers in northern Nigeria are becoming aware day provoke day, of the most important issues faced by women engross the region.

Nobility themes centre around rape, attendant violence, kidnappings, and career choices. The characters this year put on been created to represent onerous, bold women.”

Winner Aishatu Musa Dalil said: “When I got regular call from the BBC wind my story was among goodness winning stories, I was delighted. I quickly got down mull it over my knees to give increase to Allah.

I was fret expecting to win as I’m a new writer and rank competition is known to invite great writers. My family commission very proud of me extort winning the competition is look after of my biggest achievements.”

The conquering hero and runners up were awarded their prizes on Friday.