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 Representation of African Cultural Heritage in Chinua Achebe’s Novels
ABSTRACT Chinua Achebe has always been praised for his devotion to and pride of his African heritage to the extent that his novels are sometimes described as realistic and anthropologically informative portrait of traditional African societies. The proposed paper will examine Chinua Achebe’s utilization of certain elements of African cultural heritage in two of […]
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 […]
Languages and Literary Development in Multilingual Publishing in Northern Nigeria
The literacy base of the Hausa of northern Nigeria was established with their Islamic scholastic tradition dating back to 15th century. This saw the domestication of the Arabic script as localized Ajami script and which was used as a literacy base for hundreds of years. However, British colonialism from 1903 to 1910 stunted this local […]