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SOCIAL STRAFICATION IDENTITY AND HAUSA LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA

SOCIAL STRAFICATION IDENTITY AND HAUSA LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA ABSTRACT               African Sociolinguistics is about the social and cultural dimensions of language in Africa. It studies the patterns of language use on the one hand, and the factors involved in language variation on the other. Therefore differences in language use and language variation are due to […]

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TRADITIONAL HAUSA DESIGN AND HAUSA WOMEN CULTURAL IDENTITY AN OUTLOOK

TRADITIONAL HAUSA DESIGN AND HAUSA WOMEN CULTURAL IDENTITY AN OUTLOOK Abstract           Design is the creation of plan or convention for construction of an object, or a system as an architectural blueprint. It is a visual communication in form of design. Traditional designers use various method like creating words, symbols, images, graphs to create a […]

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Language and Identity in Africa: An Analysis of the Use

Language and Identity in Africa: An Analysis of the Use  Of Place Names as Part of Person’s Name in Hausa Place names are labels attached to one’s surroundings. The concept of identity helps to describe the way individuals and groups define themselves and are defined by others on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, language […]

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AFRICAN CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH CULTURAL SYMBOLISM

       AMONG THE ASHANTI OF West Africa AND THE ZULU OF SOUTH AFRICA    From being seen as a generation or two ago as a continent full of “tribes,” Africa has more recently been re-examined in light of Western theories of ethnicity and nationhood. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s “tribes” have been replaced […]

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Cuncunka jirka sababaha keena the reasons of Itching in the body

Cuncunka jirka sababaha keena the reasons of Itching in the body There are many causes of itching in the body Sababao badan ayaa jira oo keena cuncunka jirka Cuncunka sababo badan ayaa keena, qaar  waxay u noqonayaan nadaafadda qaarna waxay u noqonayaan cudurro qofka ku dhaca. Qofka marka uu ku dadaali waayo nadaafadda jirkiisa wuxuu […]

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Guurka danta ku dhisan waxa uu keeno

Guurka danta ku dhisan waxa uu keeno Guurku waa qaybta ugu muhimsan dhismaha bulshada, jacaylkiisa waa inuu run ahaadaa, caadi ahaan guurka waa midka lagu ilaalin karo jiritaanka aadanaha, diinta islaamka aad bay xoogga u saartay guurka iyo qoyska iyo degaanshaha laga rabo,  wuxuu yiri Alle (SW): {وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُم مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا […]

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Metaphorization of Political Expressions in Hausa Speaking Areas of Northern Nigeria

Abstract                           Language is a tool for conveying man‘s social veracity. Politics is one of the fields of social life in which language plays a considerable role. Politicians engage in different rhetorical uses of language to achieve their political goals. Our concern in this paper is the linguistic perspective of political expressions, which is […]