Nana Asma’u (full name Nana Asma’u bint Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo, 1793 – 1864) was a princess, poet and teacher of the Sokoto Caliphate in northern Nigeria. Influential intellectual Daughter of the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate Usman dan Fodio and half-sister of its second Sultan Mohammed Bello, N