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1. When someone asks you if you’re one of the missing Chibok girls.
2. When people want to know if you have hair on your head.
3. Getting asked “Do you really have to wear that thing on your head?”
4. When people ask if you shower with your hijab.
5. How people act surprised when they find out you actually have a brain like every normal human being
6. When people give your hijab ridiculous names.
7. When people assume you’re married and your husband “forced” you to wear the hijab.
8. When people tell you to take off your hijab.
9. When people say you’re too pretty to be Muslim.
10. When people say you will die single because you cover your hair.
11. When people say you cannot be feminist.
12. How people act shocked when you have an opinion.
13. When lecherous men still cat-call you like “Alhaja to ta lenu”.
14. When everybody calls you Alhaja and assumes you have already gone to Mecca.
15. That awkward moment when a man tries to shake your hand.
16. When people say it’s impossible for you to have a huge career but you’re actually winning at life.
17. When people still ask if you’re a Muslim after seeing you in the hijab.
18. When people ask you why you bother to take care of your hair and body if you’re only going to cover them.
19. When people assume you’re Hausa and Fulani and speak the language to you when they meet you.
20. When you’re on your period and someone is still giving you sermon because you didn’t go to pray.
21. When your hijab pins stab you more than 10 times in one day.
22. When you realise you have to sell all your properties to buy ordinary Abaya.
