2022年7月26日 · Hijab use in Nigeria’s public schools has become highly controversial, in some cases leading to riots, fatalities, the destruction of school property and the closure of schools. Adeyemi Balogun...

2023年5月23日 · Therefore, this study presents a hybrid model for mitigating the socio-legal effect of the usage of hijab in Nigeria’s public institutions to avoid harm and further enrich Nigeria’s jurisprudence.

This essay explores the significance of hijab in the evolution of politics and the bureaucracy as dimensions of the public space. The hijab has a very short history in Nigeria. Throughout the last half a century, the Muslim elite have resorted to either Islam or shari’a law as a rallying point for ethnic and male solidarity.

2025年1月30日 · The article draws on the socio-religious perceptions of 17 individuals resident in Nsukka, on the Supreme Court ruling over the use of hijab in government-owned schools. Respondents were drawn from Nigeria's three dominant religions. Analysis shows that several individuals appear dissatisfied with the ruling which ended the hijab controversy.

2025年1月31日 · A coalition of Muslim women in Nigeria under the aegis of the Hijab Right Advocacy Initiative has called on policymakers, law enforcement agencies, educators and service providers to adopt ...

A silent revolution in Muslim women’s veils has been taking place in Nigeria over the last 30 years. Up to 1975 hardly any Muslim woman in northern Nigeria wore the hijab, while today one could not miss the growing number of women who wear it. By hijab, I do not

2023年12月1日 · In February 2022, what started as a peaceful demonstration of Muslims against a move by Oyun Baptist High School in Kwara state, Nigeria to ban students from wearing hijab quickly turned violent, leading to the death of Idris Habben.

2024年8月25日 · The wearing of hijab by Nigerian Muslim women, particularly those from the northern part of Nigeria, has long been a subject of profound significance, entangled with both religious symbolism...

One of the outcomes of the Sharia movement in Nigeria is the progressive enforcement and enthronement of the use of hijab in public space. The Holy Quran itself through the prophet Muhammad never made hijab mandatory for all women. This work attempts an exposition of the meaning, types, and uses of the hijab.

The aim of this paper is to locate the politics of hijab as Muslim feminists have presented it and how it can be understood in Nigeria in the politics of the woman’s body and access to the public space.