The Hausa Princess
Episode 1
📜 The Hausa Princess – Episode 1: Born of Sand and Silence
Long before the world knew her name, before the chants of war drums echoed through the Sahel, she was simply Amina—a girl born beneath the crescent moon in the royal palace of ancient Kano.
Her birth was whispered as a blessing, but also a warning. The palace seer had looked into the fire that night and seen something strange.
"She will not walk the path of her mother," he muttered. "She will burn through the old ways like harmattan fire."
The Emir of Kano, her father, laughed it off. "She’s just a girl. Let her be a girl."
But Amina was never just anything.
By the time she was five, she could name every horse in the royal stables. At seven, she asked her sword instructor why women were not taught to fight. At ten, she followed the palace guards on patrol, quiet as a shadow.
And one day, just before her twelfth birthday, she did the unthinkable.
She entered the Council of Elders uninvited.
Clutching a clay tablet and wrapped in a simple wrapper smeared with dust, Amina interrupted a debate about trade routes and spokeclear, confident, and without apology.
"Why do we let Zaria close their borders to our merchants? They need our salt more than we need their silence."
The room fell quiet. Her father narrowed his eyes.
"Who taught you this?"
"No one," she replied. "I listened."
That was the first time Amina was seen not just as a child but as something far more dangerous.
A mind the palace could not contain.
But while the men of court debated her fate, Amina was already preparing to write her own.
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🔮 Next episode: “The Storm Rider” – Amina discovers her first taste of love, and war, in the shadows of the saddle.
👉 Stay tuned for Episode 2.
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