Queen Sarraounia: Hausa guerrilla warrior who took on barbaric France, by Owei Lakemfa
The reports of the bestiality of the French military had also started circulating in France, and a diplomatic dispute with Britain was brewing, as the French expedition was also carrying out its brutality in Sokoto, which was British territory.
The French military was faced with a seemingly invisible Azna army that attacked at will, food shortages, growing restlessness and frustration in finding Sarraounia.
So, the pursuit was abandoned because even some of the Africans in the French military had begun to believe that she was indeed a spirit.
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