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Creator: Clark, Gracia
Oumar, Hafsota

Contributing Institutions: Gracia Clark; MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University

Contributor: Gracia Clark

Biography: Hofsatu Omar grew up in Kumasi, with a Nigerian father. Her husband works at home making shoes. She had a lucrative trading business in imported clothing that featured she quit at age 40 to devote herself full time to teaching Arabic and the Koran in a neighborhood school for adult women.

Description: "As I understood the teachings of Islam, I pledged to let my fellow Muslims also know more about Islam and the Koran. That is why I prefer teaching."

Date: 2006

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Location: Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana

Format: Video/mp4

Language: English

Rights Management: For educational use only.

Digitizer: Gracia Clark

Subjects:
Allabar Women's Islamic School
Teachers
Traders
Women