In this week’s episode of The African Muslimah Podcast, host Na’ima B Robert explores the role Muslim women play in shaping culture and the power they have to challenge what should never have been passed down in the first place.
Topics of discussion include:
- How women shape the culture passed to the next generation.
- How Umm Suma prioritised her daughter’s education, deen and right to choose.
- Distinguishing harmful traditions from Islamic teachings.
- The influence of mothers, grandmothers and women as a child’s first teachers.
- Breaking cycles of forced marriage, colourism, class prejudice, abuse and silence.
- How the Prophet ﷺ challenged harmful practices while preserving what was good in Arab culture.
- How Ifrah Mohammed turned her experience of FGM into a campaign against it.
- How Dr Hawa Abdi sheltered thousands during Somalia’s civil war.
- Why lasting change must come from people who know their communities.
- What will end with you? Choosing which harmful practices we will stop passing on.
The African Muslimah is a flagship series on One Nation Media (ONM), an intimate, honest exploration of how Islam shapes the identity, choices, and impact of African Muslim women across the continent and diaspora.
