TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tudu,Safiya Hussaini Tungar
AU  - Masto,Raffaele
TI  - I, Safiya
SN  - 1405035994
U1  - 305.48697092 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Pan Macmillan Australia
KW  - Tudu, Safiya Hussaini Tungar.
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Sokoto State
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women (Islamic law)
KW  - Islamic law
N2  - "This is the true account of one woman's courageous struggle for justice, and the story that in 2001 made the eyes of the world turn to the small Nigerian village of Tungar Tudu. Safiya Hussaini was accused of adultary, arrested and taken from her farming village in northern Nigeria. Brought before a Sharia court, she was sentenced to death by stoning. Her crime was to become pregnant outside marriage and to give birth to a little girl. ... Safiya summoned the strength to fight for her life. Supported by her family, her lawyer and her faith in Allah, she was determined to stay alive to care for her little girl"--p. [4] of cover
ER  -