A man identified as @cuzzy00 on twitter has although acknowledged the fact that Hausa ladies are pretty, but was swift to also mention that they are quite terrible when it comes to expressing their ...

In Nigeria, stereotypes don’t just live in jokes and social media banter, they shape how people see and treat women. Many of these harmful ideas are tied to ethnic identities, meaning that a Yoruba ...

This chapter considers the figurative expression of metaphor through proverb, praise epithet, and wordplay in Hausa wa'ko'ki. Where they occur, these figurative expressions occasionally are ...

Includes English translations of Hausa poems and texts. Reviewed by Clare A. Ignatowski in African studied review (New Brunswick, NJ) 49 (1) April 2006, pages 170-172. (DT1.A1 A26 AFA). The singers ...

There is a boom of Hausa female literature writers today, and it is all thanks to the social and digital media platforms. According to siblings and founders of the Hausa International Books & Arts ...

Photographer Glenna Gordon shares beautiful pictures and stories of Hausa women writing romance fiction stories in the shadow of Islamist censors and militants in northern Nigeria. Meet these Hausa ...

Africa Today, Vol. 61, No. 4, Special Issue: Love and Sex in Islamic Africa (Summer 2015), pp. 85-103 (20 pages) https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.61.4.85 • https ...