Arewa Girls
We were girls once. The girls you once saw hawking on the streets of Arewa—selling awara, wainan rogo, dan wake…
Hussani Abdulrahim
Hussani Abdulrahim is a Nigerian writer. He was shortlisted for the 2026 Bristol Short Story Prize, the Masters Review 2026 Winter Short Story Award for New Writers, and the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award in 2024. Hussani won the 2023 Writivism Prize, the 2022 Toyin Falola Prize, and WRRs 2016 Green Author Prize. He was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2023. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Evergreen Review, Ubwali Lit Mag, ZamaShort, and The Flame Tree Writers Workshop Anthology. He lives in Kano, Nigeria.
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