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This book gives insight into how violence is experienced by girls and women in Kano, the second largest city in Nigeria. Forms of violence are wife battering, genital mutilation, forced courtesanship, child marriage with its attendant psychological and physiological implications, oppressive inheritance traditions and so on. The author discusses how urban poverty, unyielding cultural and religious stereotypes and illiteracy produce violence against women. He also highlights efforts made at solving these problems and makes suggestions on what policy makers can do. (DÜI-Hff)