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“Beverly Mack and Jean Boyd have documented the role played by women in the intellectual and political life of the Sokoto Caliphate. Uthman Dan Fodio himself belonged to a clan in which women received religious instruction. His mother and grandmother were learned scholars,77 and his daughter Nana Asma’u78 (d. 1864) wrote nine poems in Arabic,…
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“Fiddling in northern Nigeria is most often identified with the Hausa, despite the fact that outsiders introduced it to the Central Sudan. Unlike the one-stringed fiddle’s roles among Senegambian Fulbe or the Dagbamba of Dagbon, the goge, or Hausa fiddle, does not symbolize ethnic identity nor does it represent high social status. The poem…
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“Called Fulani in Northern Nigeria, Peul by the French, and Fellata in Borno and the Nilotic Sudan,72 the Fulbe are speakers of the fourth most spoken African language after Arabic, Kiswahili, and Hausa. Originating in the Senegal River valley, they spread throughout the West African savannah between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries.73…
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Sounds of the Hausa language
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Fulani (Fulfulde) greetings
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