I came out with flying colous, all arrangements were made for me to get married and as fate would have it, I again protected, as I wanted to continue… - Sa'adiya Omar Bello

I demanded to be taken to school at age 6.

As an academician, I had to continue presenting papers and my area of interest was on Shehu Usman, their contributions to poetry and I took Nana Asma’u who was also a renowned Islamic scholar. I wrote a paper on her and presented it at the university and a friend to late Waziri Junaidu the erudite scholar attended the seminar and said that the paper I presented on Nana Asma’u was great. Then I also presented another paper on her sister, because I realized that most of these women were well- versed and educated, but their contributions were not documented.

Then an opportunity came for me to study at the Bayero University, Kano. I remember Professor Kabir Galadachi at the Bayero University, he came to my school looking for Kano/ Sokoto indigenes, and I was there. He gave us forms and instructed us on how to fill it and that was how we got admission into Bayero University, Kano. I did my Degree in Education and Language, Islamic Studies/ Hausa. At that stage I got married to late Dr. Omar Bello who was nephew of the late Sultan of Sokoto, so I had an opportunity to come back home again.