The Bayajidda tradition suggests that

  • A Hausa ancestors came from Arabia
  • B women exercised political power in pre-Islamic Hausaland
  • C the introduction of Islam led to the formation of the Hausa city states
  • D The Queen of Daura was the first to embrace Islam.
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The correct answer is B. women exercised political power in pre-Islamic Hausaland

It indicated that Daura was ruled by a

queen who offered to many Bayajidda

in gratitude for killing the sacred snake

Sarki that hitherto allowed her subject

to draw water from the only well in the

town only on Fridays

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