Hausa Women Modernity and Identities A Glimpse from the Pen of Hausa Women Writers
Hausa Women Modernity and Identities A Glimpse from the Pen of Hausa Women Writers The gender debate in Northern Nigeria for the past four decades has been focusing on the marginalization of women in political affairs, their unaccounted contribution to the national economies they found themselves in; lack of, or inaccessibility to education, differentials […]
Dada Sare A Woman of Substance in Colonial Northern Nigeria
Dada Sare A Woman of Substance in Colonial Northern Nigeria History of Northern Nigerian Women, most especially during the colonial times will be incomplete without special mention and paying a great tribute to Hajiya Maimuna Dada Sare. She was a woman of substance and prestige as testified by some colonial officers who worked and interact […]
SEEING IS BELIEVING: A PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF A TRUE HAUSA MAN
SEEING IS BELIEVING: A PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF A TRUE HAUSA MAN ABSTRACT Physical appearance is among the qualities that can identifies whichever tribe a person belongs to. Virtually, the physical appearance of every person depends upon his cultural identity that can quickly make other people to recognize him as a member of specific tribe. […]
The Concepts of Ciwo Cuta and Magani in Hausa Thought
The Concepts of Ciwo Cuta and Magani in Hausa Thought ABSTRACT From the time of creating human beings up to this time all human beings are struggling for survival in all their endeavors. Parts of such struggle include that of living a healthy life in which people from diversified cultures (Hausa people inclusive) […]
INSEPARABILITY OF PULLO-PULLAAKU AND PULLO LINGUISTIC IDENTITY IN NIGERIA
INSEPARABILITY OF PULLO-PULLAAKU AND PULLO LINGUISTIC IDENTITY IN NIGERIA Abstract The Pullo has a linguistic identity with which he/she is identified. Fulbe are known to be shy, reserved and trustworthy and these constitute “Pullaaku” as a behaviour perculiar to Fulbe. This behaviour (Pullaaku) is tied to the Linguistic identity of the Fulbe. This paper takes […]
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 […]
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 […]