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2009–present. Notable credit. Best known for her appearance in Ali Yaga Ali. Awards. See below. Hadiza Aliyu ( listen ⓘ), also known as Hadiza Gabon (born 1 June 1989 in Libreville, Gabon ), [2] is a Nigerian professional actress and filmmaker who acts in both Hausa and English movies. [3] Hadiza serves as an ambassador for MTN Nigeria and ...
Ruwan Bagaja. Ruwan Bagaja Hausa pronunciation: [Ruwan Bagaja] ⓘ literally meaning "Water of Cure" is a debut novel written in Hausa language by Dr Abubakar Imam at the age of 22 years, He presented the book during a literature bureau competition organised by Rupert East in the year 1933 in Zaria. Abubakar Imam won second prize for his ...
Sufism (Arabic: الصوفية, romanized: al-Ṣūfiyya or Arabic: التصوف, romanized: al-Taṣawwuf) is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, asceticism, and esotericism.
Artistic representation of a Median man. The Medes / ˈ m iː d z / (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭 Māda-; Akkadian: mat Mādāya, mat Mātāya; Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι Mēdoi; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran.
Tales of the Hasidim. Tales of the Hasidim is a book of collected tales by Martin Buber. It is based on stories—both written and spoken—based in the Hasidim. [1] Buber wrote these tales based on the lore of the Baal Shem Tov. Many of the stories are parables passed down via both the written and spoken word.
A Mandinka speaker, recorded in Taiwan. The Mandinka language ( Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages. Mandinka belongs ...
The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the process of ...
The Priene calendar inscription ( IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC. The documents align the provincial ...