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Hausa folklore : twenty-one folk-stories of the Hausa people of Africa / by Maalam Shaihu and translated by R. Sutherland Rattray

English-only edition of the compilation originally published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1913. Preface by R.R. Marett. "Includes introductory section which details the history of the Hausa people ...
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A brief history of how the Hausas were conquered by the Fulanis

Do you know that the Hausa tribe in its pure form is extremely rare these days? According to legend, the mythological ancestor of the Hausa people, Bayajidda, moved from Baghdad to the Kanem-Bornu ...
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Good muslims, bad muslims: Hausas in Yorubaland

Reading Mukhtar S Umar’s book reminds me of the title of Ugandan scholar, Mahmood Mamdani’s famous book: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. The book is an attempt by an author to document the history of the ...
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Hausas In Yorubaland

Reading Mukhtar S. Umar’s book reminds me of the title of the Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani’s famous book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. The book is an attempt by an author to document the history of the ...
The Nation Newspaper

Sudan’s Hausa communities in turmoil over ongoing war

For centuries, an unbroken, often unofficial cord has existed between Nigeria and Sudan. The ongoing internal strife has seen largely undocumented Nigerians mostly the ancient Sudanese Hausa ...