PHILOSOPHER

Nana Asmaʼu

1793 - 1864

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Nana Asmaʾu (; full name: Asmaʾu bint Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo , Arabic: نانا أسماء بنت عثمان فودي; 1793–1864) was a Fula princess, poet, teacher, and a daughter of the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, Usman dan Fodio. She remains a revered figure in northern Nigeria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nana Asmaʼu has received more than 62,733 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nana Asmaʼu is the 996th most popular philosopher (up from 1,046th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Nigeria (up from 31st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Nigerian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nana Asmaʼu ranks 996 out of 1,267. Before her are Athenodorus Cananites, Abdolkarim Soroush, Harry Frankfurt, Merab Mamardashvili, Sphaerus, and Jean Rostand. After her are Thomas Arnold, Ram Dass, Seyla Benhabib, Jacob Taubes, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, and Isidore of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Nana Asmaʼu ranks 35. Before her are Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Casimir Delavigne, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Lucretia Mott, and Demetrios Ypsilantis. After her are Kazim Rashti, Simonas Daukantas, Diego Portales, Martin Rathke, Stephen F. Austin, and Joseph Paul Gaimard. Among people deceased in 1864, Nana Asmaʼu ranks 49. Before her are Charles Julien Brianchon, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Simon von Stampfer, Romuald Traugutt, and Gaetano Bedini. After her are Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Heinrich Rose, J. E. B. Stuart, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Simonas Daukantas, and Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Nana Asmaʼu ranks 24 out of 309. Before her are Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Rashidi Yekini (1963), Abdulsalami Abubakar (1942), Amos Tutuola (1920), Victor Osimhen (1998), and Nwankwo Kanu (1976). After her are Tijani Babangida (1973), Ibrahim Babangida (1941), Shehu Shagari (1925), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), Yakubu Gowon (1934), and Tony Allen (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Nigeria

Among philosophers born in Nigeria, Nana Asmaʼu ranks 2. Before her are Usman dan Fodio (1754).

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