books: hausa folklore

books: hausa folklore

books:

Hausa folklore

Aaron Shepard

HarperCollins Publishers, 2000

A Masterful, Well Told Tale
Foolish Shadusa thinks he's the strongest man in the world and orders his wife to call him "master man". But his wise wife warns him: "Quit your foolish boasting. No matter how strong your are, there will always be someone stronger. And watch out, or someday you ...

Hausa Folk-Lore: Customs, Proverbs, Etc. (Forgotten Books)
Maalam Shaihua

Forgotten Books, 2007

Book Description: "Hausa Folk-lore is a book by Maalam Shaihua, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray, published in 1913. It contains twenty-one folk-stories of the Hausa people of Africa. 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." (Quote from ...

Hausa Sayings and Folklore

Kessinger Publishing, 2003

1912. With a vocabulary of new words. This little book contains the notebook in which between the years of 1904 and 1910 unpublished Hausa phrases and words were noted down whenever heard during the author's stay in Northern Nigeria. They are published with the hope that students of Hausa may find them useful in the attainment of a more perfect ...

Hausa Folk-Lore Customs, Proverbs, Etc. V2: Collected And Transliterated With English Translation And Notes
R. Sutherland Rattray

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

Narrator as Interpreter: Stability and Variation in Hausa Tales (Monograph Series 2/96)
S.B. Ahmad

Spectrum Books, 1998

Based on a corpus of 150 tales from the many towns and villages in the main Hausa states of Northern Nigeria. The author examines the stability of the form of the tales and variations in relation to narrative freedom and constraints, narrative performance techniques, the use of song, specialised vocabulary and audience enjoyment. He identifies the ...

Hausa Folklore; Volume I: Customs; Proverbs; etc.
Maalam Shaihu

BiblioBazaar, 2007

THIS IS A BOOK OF STORIES Translated by R. Sutherland Rattray. WITH A PREFACE BY R. R. MARETT

HAUSA FOLK-LORE, 2008

HAUSA FOLK-LORE CUSTOMS, PROVERBS, ETC. WANAN LITAFI TATSUNIA NE THIS IS A BOOK OF STORIES COLLECTED AND TRANSLITERATED WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES BY R. SUTHERLAND RATTRAY, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.