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Visual depiction of Nana Asma'u

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Vol. II · Polytheism · love

Nana Asma'u

West African Islamic scholar and feminine authority


daughter of Usman dan Fodio, her pen and veil the symbols of a woman who educated thousands in the Sokoto Caliphate

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
love

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.