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 ...

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 ...

Before I went to northern Nigeria for the first time, I read the 1990 Nigerian romance novel Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home, thought to be the first Hausa-language novel by a woman to be ...

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 ...

The video was shared by Nigerian newspaper, PM News via their official Twitter page recently. An Igbo man had come in contact with the 37-year-old woman and was shocked to find out she speaks Igbo ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said the killers of a Hausa woman with four children in Anambra State, Fatima are not operatives of the Eastern Security Network, ESN. IPOB said it’s an ...

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 ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has distanced itself from the killing of Hausa woman and her children in Orumba-South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The group described the act as ...