Word: katsina
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...Holyoke Center is more fertile these days thanks to some Hopi spirits—though spirits of a distinctly 20th century sort. Hopi katsina dolls—traditionally carved by Hopi Indians to share the stories of their ancestors—are telling their stories through a new medium: photography. Through Feb. 28, George Ducharme will be displaying a photographic study of his collection of katsina dolls in the Holyoke Center Exhibition Space. The dolls’ carvings are meant to represent katsina spirits, benevolent ancestral beings whom the Hopi believe can bring fertility and health to their native arid...
OVERTURNED. The conviction of AMINA LAWAL, 32, a Nigerian single mother; of adultery, a crime for which she was sentenced to death by stoning; by an Islamic appeals court; in Katsina, Nigeria. Lawal, whose sentence provoked international criticism and heightened tensions between the country's Christians and Muslims, would have been the first woman to be stoned to death since 12 states adopted Shari'a, or strict Islamic law, starting...
...have been murdered since 1991, the inquiry revealed that only 2% of the attacks were racially or politically motivated. Stoning Overturned NIGERIA A woman convicted for adultery and sentenced to death by stoning under Shari'a law won her second appeal at a court in the northern state of Katsina. The ruling brought relief to President Olusegun Obesanjo, who was under pressure from Western governments and the E.U. to stop the sentence being carried out. Amina Lawal would have been the first person to be stoned to death since Shari'a law was adopted by 12 predominantly Muslim northern states...
...Mohammed also agreed to marry her. "I thought that this would end up as a happy thing," she says. But eight days after she gave birth, police arrested Lawal, 30, for adultery, a capital crime under the Islamic law, or shari'a, in effect in her home state of Katsina in northern Nigeria. A courtroom crowd cried, "Allahu akbar (God is great)!" as a shari'a court last week rejected an appeal of her sentence. As soon as she weans nine-month-old Wasila, Lawal is scheduled to be buried in the ground up to her chest and stoned...