Hausa Folk-lore explained

Hausa Folk-lore is a book by Maalam Shaihua, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray, published in 1913. In two volumes, it contains a pronunciation guide, thirty folk-stories of the Hausa people of Africa (twenty-one in volume I, nine in volume II) as well as some information regarding their customs. The book is notable in that it was actually written by one of the Hausa, not a European, as is common in such books from the time period.^{[1] [2] [3]}

External links

• Hausa Folk-lore, volume I
• Hausa Folk-lore, volume II

Notes and References

1. 1914 . Review of The Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan . Bulletin of the American Geographical Society . 46 . 5 . 378–378 . 10.2307/201833 . 0190-5929.
2. October 1913 . Hausa Folk-Lore, Customs, Proverbs, & c., Collected and Transliterated with English Translation and Notes . Nature . en . 92 . 2293 . 159–159 . 10.1038/092159a0 . 1476-4687.
3. Sutherland-Addy . Esi . January 2002 . Narrator as Interpreter : Stability and Variation in Hausa Tales, S.B. Ahmad : book review . Institute of African Studies Research Review . 18 . 2.