Words are precious. They build ideas and stories that intensify the imagination and evolve the human being. What would you do if you weren't allowed to read what you wanted? Close your eyes and pretend you live in a place that discourages you from writing and reading content you believe is educating you.
In Kano, Nigeria, headscarved women gather in book stalls and peruse through female-written literature. These books are bound quite cheaply but the content discusses polygamy, love, and desire.
As expected, conservatives in Northern Nigeria assert that these books degrade the Islamic religion and culture. However, female readers claim they're learning how to seduce their husbands--many of them being one of four wives to a Northern Nigerian male.
Maryam Muhammed Haladu, a 20-year old reader of these books states, "we're living in a modern society, but there are still things they don't tell you. Some ladies, when they're married, they don't know what to do. They don't know how to take care of a man, how to seduce him."
Thanks to modern communication technology, women make up about 100 of the Kano chapter of the Nigerian Writers Association.
Sold for about 30 cents a copy, these books explain ways to live in a polygamous household, exercising harmony with the other wives and husband.
But there are other publications that express more romantic ideas such as flirting with men in public.
Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, the head of Kano's Islamic clerics' association, the Council of Ulama says, "religiously, it's not haram (banned) to write about love in Islam. But the way they write, it's not very mature."
What are you complaining about Khalil? Don't you want all four wives to learn the art of seduction? Or are you so self-conscious that you fear your wife(-ves) will become educated enough to believe in liberation and to set out to find a better sex life?
Kano sisters, read, read, read, and write, write, write to your mind and libido's desire.
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