African oral literature
Big Chaps
Bulrush Millet
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Chief's Compound
Chief's Daughter
Chief's Life
Chief's Son
Chief’s Compound
Chief’s Daughter
Chief’s Life
Chief’s Son
Cock Crows
Cola Nut
Cowries
Dumb Man
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ethnographic folklore studies
folk thought
Follow
Foolish Boy
Gazelle
Goatskin Bag
Hausa folk stories
historical sources
Hm
Husband's Compound
Husband’s Compound
indigenous legal systems
Kano Character
narrative animal symbolism
Nile Perch
Northern Nigerian ethnic group
Roan Antelope
Roundabout
Shea Butter
Shea Butter Tree
sociocultural anthropology
traditional Hausa society
traditional Hausa storytelling analysis
Trousers
West African ethnology
Wo
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367136949
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1969, this book is a translation of Frank Edgar's Hausa folk stories, which was made primarily in Sokoto Province at the direction of Major John Alder, who in 1910 gave Edgar some Hausa texts written in the Ajemic script for transliteration into Roman characters. Edgar prepared the the first volme of the Tatsuniyoyi for publication in 1911. The Hausa whose folklore Edgar recorded so industriously are the largest ethnic group in Northern Nigeria and number many millions and these tales of past events show how Hausa conceive the histories of their states, the characters of their rulers, and their institutions of government and law. These traditions are thus equally important as documents of folk thought and as historical sources.
Neil Skinner
