Hausa in the Modern World
Author : Liman Muhammad
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Hausa language
ISBN :
Author : Liman Muhammad
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Hausa language
ISBN :
Author : Scott M. Youngstedt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739173502
Surviving with Dignity explores three key interconnected themes--structural violence, suffering, and surviving with dignity--through examining the lived experiences of first and second-generation migrant Hausa men in Niamey over the past two decades in the current neoliberal moment. Colonialism, state mismanagement, structural adjustment, and global neoliberalism have inflicted structural violence on Nigeriens by denying them human and particularly socioeconomic rights and relegating them to a status at--or very near--the bottom of UN Human Development Index in each year of the past decade. As a result of structural violence, most Hausa of Niamey suffer grinding and intractable poverty that has intensified over the past two decades. Suffering is a recurrent and expected condition; it is the normal condition. The central goal of the book is to explain the material (migration and informal economy work) and symbolic (meaning-making) strategies that Hausa individuals and communities have deployed in their struggles not only to literally survive in the face of economic austerity on the outer periphery of the global economy, but also to survive with dignity. Despite daunting challenges, many Hausa men find strength and patience in their humble devotion to Islam, cherish their vibrant sociability and gracious hospitality, deeply value extraordinary conversational virtuosity and knowledge, deploy humor in complex transcendent, defensive and self-critical ways, perpetuate a sense of hope and optimism for the future, articulate their own modernities, and strive relentlessly to feel connected to the modern world at large. Extreme poverty created by socioeconomic injustice constitutes an unacceptable assault on human dignity. Hausa men's remarkable strength does not negate the reality of the socioeconomic injustices they face. Their dire poverty in a world of plenty is unacceptable even when they handle it gracefully.
Author : Izabela Will
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004449795
This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.
Author : Catherine M. Coles
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0299130231
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.
Author : Paul Newman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0300122462
This up-to-date volume, the first Hausa-English dictionary published in a quarter of a century, is written with language learners and practical users in mind. With over 10,000 entries, it primarily covers Standard Nigerian Hausa but also includes numerous forms from Niger and other dialect areas of Nigeria. The dictionary includes new Hausa terminology for products, events, and activities of the modern world. Its definitions show the use of Hausa words in context, and particular attention is paid to idioms, figurative meanings, and special usages. As a guide to pronunciation, headwords and illustrative sentences are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The book adopts a unique approach to the presentation of verb forms that clarifies lexical relationships and their correct usage.
Author : Kasahorow
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2022-08-31
Category :
ISBN :
"Learn Hausa the modern way with Hausa kasahorow!Start exploring the modern world with Hausa!The Modern Hausa Dictionary is a Hausa explorer's dictionary for English language speakers.Read Modern Hausa confidently. Contains all the words you need to understand every book in the kasahorow Hausa Library.Discover the joy of learning new things in Hausa.Suitable for everyone 13 years old and older."
Author : Frank A. Salamone
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0761847243
This book is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics, various other dimensions of Hausa life, minority group relationships, and creolization.
Author : kasahorow
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781499518955
Start exploring the English-language world with the help of Hausa! The Modern Hausa Dictionary is an explorer's dictionary for English and Hausa bilinguals to understand difficult English texts. Contains over 500 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern African English language book. Look up unfamiliar English words and get an example sentence of its usage in Hausa. Discover the joy of learning new things in English with help from Hausa. Suitable for everyone 12 years old and older.
Author : Paul Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1009123106
Written by the world's leading expert on Hausa, this book provides a lucid and comprehensive linguistic history of the language, highlighting changes in phonology, tonology, morphology, grammar, and lexicon. It is an invaluable resource for specialists in African and Afroasiatic languages, as well as general historical linguists and typologists.
Author : Anne Haour
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004185437
Hausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology to enquire into how a ‘Hausa’ identity took shape and what have been its changing material and cultural manifestations. The result is a compelling overview of one of the most iconic groups of modern West Africa.