Biography Of Late Malam Aminu Kano Mallam Aminu Kano die, 17 April, 1983 (aged 62). 40 years to date A well-respected politician, reformer,...
Biography Of Late Malam Aminu Kano
Mallam Aminu Kano die, 17 April, 1983 (aged 62). 40 years to date
A well-respected politician, reformer, and educator from Nigeria was Mallam Aminu Kano. He exerted considerable effort in favor of democratization, women's emancipation, and free expression. He led a Muslim movement in the nation's north that was anti-British government in the 1940s.
Aminu Kano was born in 1920 to Mallam Yusuf's family. Mallam Yusuf was a mufti at the Alkali court in Kano and an expert in Islamic studies from the eminent Gyanawa Fulani community.
From 1930 to 1937, he attended Kano Middle School and Sheuchi Primary School. He enrolled in the Kaduna College, presently known as Barewa College (formerly known as Katsina College).
In 1942, he started teaching at the Bauchi Training College after receiving his teaching credential.
Together with Nigeria's first and only prime minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, he received one of seven scholarships in September 1946 for a year of study at the Institute of Education at the University of London.
The Northern Teachers Association (NTA), the first prosperous regional organization in the history of the North, was founded by Aminu Kano in March 1948 when he returned from England.
He chose to include conservatives like Shettima Ajiram and Tafawa Balewa in the organization's leadership (Ajiram served as its first president and Balewa as its first vice president) in order to avoid trouble with the authorities (a concern due to his anti-colonial opinions and reformist ideas).
Aminu Kano served as the group's general secretary. Aminu Kano intended to create a group that would be free of potential southern dominance even though there was already a Nigerian Union of Teachers in the country's southern region. However, upon Aminu Kano's departure, the northern faction formally allied themselves with the southern union.
Location Of Residence
On August 9, 1920, Aminu was born in the Sudawa district of Kano City. His parents, Rakaiya and Mallam Yusufu of the Gyanawa tribe, were Fulani academics renowned for their expertise in Islamic law and other Islamic subjects. He was the only one of his mother's six children to live to be fifteen. His father subsequently held the position of Acting Chief Alkali of Kano, and both of his parents had extensive Islamic education. The Fulani title of Modibbo, often bestowed upon esteemed Islamic scholars, was bestowed to his grandmother. Local legend states that Aminu's cousin was named chief Alkali of Kano by Usman dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate. The Gyanawa have been pursued to assume legal positions ever since.
Local legend states that Aminu's cousin was named chief Alkali of Kano by Usman dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate. Ever since, there has been a demand for Gyanawa people to hold legal posts like muftis, walis, and alkalis.
Educational Background
Aminu's mother and grandmother were his first instructors when he started school; they taught him how to read the Quran and the Arabic language. He moved in with his uncle to live under the care of his maternal grandmother after his mother passed away in 1926. Thus, his uncle Halilu (who was later named 'Mallam Mai Tattabari') took on the role of teaching him the Koran. Aminu was also enrolled in Shehuci Primary School, a western institution, where he received instruction in English reading and writing. As was typical at the time among Northern Nigerians with Western education, he took on the surname of his birthplace, Kano.
Aminu started attending the boarding Kano Middle School (later known as Rumfa College, Kano) in 1933. He spearheaded one of the earliest student strikes in Nigeria in 1935, protesting inadequate food, a lack of soap, "too many restrictions, and too severe a code of behaviour" After that, he continued on to Kaduna College (later called Barewa College), where he graduated in 1942 with a diploma in education.
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