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The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies, and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention of historians, political economists, linguists, and anthropologists. The large body of scholarship on Hausa society, however, has assumed the subordination of women to men. Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century refutes the notion that Hausa women are pawns in a patriarchal Muslim society. The contributors, all of whom have done field research in Hausaland, explore the ways Hausa women have balanced the demands of Islamic expectations and Western choices as their society moved from a precolonial system through British colonial administration to inclusion in the modern Nigerian nation. This volume examines the roles of a wide variety of women, from wives and workers to political activists and mythical figures, and it emphasizes that women have been educators and spiritual leaders in Hausa society since precolonial times. From royalty to slaves and concubines, in traditional Hausa cities and in newer towns, from the urban poor to the newly educated elite, the "invisible women" whose lives are documented here demonstrate that standard accounts of Hausa society must be revised. Scholars of Hausa and neighboring West African societies will find in this collection a wealth of new material and a model of how research on women can be integrated with general accounts of Hausa social, religious, political, and economic life. For students and scholars looking at gender and women's roles cross-culturally, this volume provides an invaluable African perspective.--Publisher description

Women, Hausa. --- Muslim women.

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Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the Blue Nile province of the Sudan. It is also widely spoken as a second language and has expanded rapidly as a lingua franca. Hausa is a member of the Chadic language family which, together with Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, Berber and Ancient Egyptian, is a coordinate branch of the Afroasiatic phylum. This

Hamitic languages --- Afroasiatic languages --- Hausa language --- Grammar.

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This is a dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of any Chadic language other than Hausa. All entries for Bole are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The Bole-English-Hausa section has full definitions and explanations of meaning in English with numerous examples of use. Each entry has a Hausa gloss. The English-Bole section is intended mainly as an index to the Bole-English-Hausa section. There are appendices of flora and fauna terms, cultural terms, pronouns, and comprehensive paradigms of verb forms.

Bole language --- Ampika language --- Bo Pikka language --- Bolanchi language --- Bolanci language --- Bolawa language --- Bolea language --- Bolenci language --- Bolewa language --- Borlawa language --- Borpika language --- Bole-Tangale languages --- English. --- bauchi nigeria. --- bolanci. --- bole english dictionary. --- bole language pronunciation. --- bole language. --- bole pronunciation. --- bole. --- chadic languages. --- gombe nigeria. --- hausa english dictionary. --- hausa language pronunciation. --- hausa language. --- hausa pronunciation. --- hausa. --- language of fika. --- nigeria. --- nigerian dictionary. --- nigerian languages. --- nigerian pronunciation. --- northeastern nigeria language. --- northeastern nigeria. --- translate bola. --- translate bole language. --- translate hausa language. --- translate hausa. --- yobe nigeria.

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Graham Furniss is Professor of African Language Literature at the University of London.

Hausa language --- Grammar. --- English. --- Abakwariga language --- Afuno language --- Haoussa language --- Hausaawaa language --- Hausawa language --- Hawsa language --- Mgbakpa language --- Chadic languages

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West African pilgrims in Sudan believe that walking across the savannas and desert is the only proper way of performing the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. However, their journey appears to stop halfway in Sudan, where many of them reside in stranger enclaves as fourth- and fifth-generation immigrants. Describing themselves as transients, they see these villages as temporary stations on their way to Mecca. This book examines life in a set of pilgrim villages to show how the concept of pilgrimage is maintained. It examines why these people allow themselves to live in a state of permanent transition, and argues that here pilgrimage is a symbolic journey analogous to life itself.

Hausa (African people) --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Hausa (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages musulmans --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages musulmans --- Sudan --- HISTORY / Africa / General. --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Islamic pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim --- Muslim travelers --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages