Amina Sukhera (also called Aminatu) was a Muslim princess of the royal family of Zazzau (now Zaria), in what is now northeast Nigeria. PBS.org - Global Connections: Roles of Muslim Women She was born c. 1533 and is estimated to have died around 1610. The Arabic female name Amina means truthful and trustworthy. Military career When Amina was sixteen years old her mother, Bakwa Turunku, beca