Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa

• The architecture of literature and the interplay of voices; imaginative prose writing 1934-94; oral narratives - Tatsuniya, the tale and other prose forms; short form verbal art; theatre and mimesis; song and freelance popular singers; tied singers, singing for combatants, farmers and emirs; poetry - form and historical background in the 19th century; modern Hausa poetry.

Fills a conspicuous gap in the literature, has no rival in the field, and is destined to rank as a brilliant piece of research which will deservedly become a standard work of scholarship and authority. -- A H M Kirk-Greene, University of Oxford Fills a conspicuous gap in the literature, has no rival in the field, and is destined to rank as a brilliant piece of research which will deservedly become a standard work of scholarship and authority.