Hausa literature information

Hausa literature is any work written in the Hausa language. It includes poetry, prose, songwriting, music, and drama. Hausa literature includes folk literature...

Hausa (/ˈhaʊsə/; Harshen/Halshen Hausa listen; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts...

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا;...

Hausa Ajami script refers to the practice of using the alphabet derived from Arabic script for writing of Hausa language. Ajami is a name commonly given...

Prize for Literature in Africa. Nigerian literature is predominantly English-language. Literature in the national languages Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa plays only...

Ibrahim Yaro (1988). "The Development of Hausa Literature. in Yemi Ogunbiyi, ed. Perspectives on Nigerian Literature: 1700 to the Present. Lagos: Guardian...

poetic power. Professor Neil Skinner, the renown Hausa scholar, in his book, An Anthology of Hausa Literature, described Malam Akilu as "vigorous and highly...

and analyses of modern Yoruba novels. Oríkì Hausa literature Igbo literature Efik literature Edo literature List of Nigerian writers Third Generation of...

festival was the announcement of a five hundred thousand naira Prize for Hausa Literature, and a residency for writers writing in the language. The festival...

These oral traditions exist in many languages including Fula, Swahili, Hausa, and Wolof. In Algeria, oral poetry was an important part of Berber traditions...

1150 dialects and ethnic groups. The three largest ethnic groups are the Hausas that are predominantly in the north, the Yorubas who predominate in the...

Rupert East, the head of the colonial Translation Bureau, to promote Hausa literature. Shaihu Umar was first published in 1934. An English translation by...

script used for writing African languages, particularly Songhai, Mandé, Hausa and Swahili, although many other languages are also written using the script...

Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing is a Nigerian literature prize given to authors who publish in the Hausa language. Founded in 2007 by the...

Nigerian poets List of Nigerian women writers Hausa literature Yoruba literature Igbo literature Efik literature Third Generation of Nigerian writers...

Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...

Uba. "Hausa Video Films – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Intellectualizing Hausa Video Films in Retrospect". McCain, Carmen. "Hausa Literature and Film"...

Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While, It tends to be dominated by...

against Kwararafa.: 22 : 132  This poem is one of the earliest pieces of Hausa literature composed in Arabic.: 308  The burial site of Dan Marina is one of Katsina...

techniques, instruments, and songs. The largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. Traditional music from Nigeria and throughout Africa is often...

symbols. Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over...

million people. The major native languages, in terms of population, are Hausa (over 80 million when including second-language, or L2, speakers), Yoruba...

Bayajidda (Hausa: Bàyā̀jiddà) was, according to the legends surrounding most West African states before the 19th century, the founder of the Hausa states...

activities taking place in the Nigerian film industry, be it in English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Itsekiri, Edo, Efik, Ijaw, Urhobo, Ibibio, Annang or any other of...

Onitsha Market Literature refers to a number of pamphlets, books and other publications sold at the Onitsha Market in Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s. Much...

Somali literature is the literature used by the ethnic Somalis of Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Yemen, Eritrea, Ogadenia, and Kenya. Due to the Somali...

Nigerian Americans (Igbo: Ṇ́dị́ Naìjíríyà n'Emerịkà; Hausa: Yan Amurka asalin Najeriya; Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà) are Americans who are of Nigerian...