Malan aminu kano biography

Mallam Aminu Kano was a highly respected Nigerian politician, reformist and teacher.

Malan aminu kano biography

He worked vigorously in support of democratisation, women's empowerment and freedom of speech. In the 1940s, he led an Islamic movement in the north of the country in opposition to British rule.

Early Life
Aminu Kano was born in 1920 to the family of Mallam Yusuf, an Islamic scholar of the scholarly Gyanawa Fulani clan and a mufti at the Alkali court in Kano.

He attended Sheuchi Primary School and Kano Middle School between 1930 and 1937. He enrolled at the Kaduna College (formerly Katsina College, now Barewa College) in 1937. After earning his teaching certificate, he began teaching at the Bauchi Training College in 1942.

In September 1946, he was offered one of seven scholarships for a year’s study at theUniversity of London's Institute of Education alongside Nigeria’s first and only prime minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
Upon his return from England, Kano form