Literary Texts
- Idan Kunne Ya Ji: Jiki ya tsira byCall Number: PL8231 .G35 1988Publication Date: Kano: s.n., c1988.
Variant title is Jiki ya tsira
- Kano Ta Dabo Cigari byCall Number: DT515.9.K32 A28 1978Publication Date: Zaria : Northern Nigerian Publishing Co., 1978A collection of Hausa cultural texts.
- Karin Magana (An sake bugawa) [Proverbs (Revised edition)]Call Number: PN6519.H35 K37 1961Publication Date: Zaria: Gaskiya, 1961A collection of Hausa proverbs.
- Labaru na da da na yanzu [Stories of the past and the present]Call Number: PL8234.A2 L33 1968Publication Date: Zaria : Northern Nigerian Pub. Co., c1968
- Manual of Hausa Idioms byCall Number: PL8232 .B265 1979Publication Date: Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1979
- One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, scholar and scribe byCall Number: PL8234.A85 Z77 2000ISBN: 0253337070Publication Date: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2000Discusses the works of prominent 9th Century Hausa scholar and poet, Nana Asma'u biht Usman dan Fodio.
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa by Call Number: PL8233.5 .F87 1996ISBN: 1560986956Publication Date: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1996Discusses Hausa poetry, prose and popular culture. First published by the Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, c1996- Structures Normatives et Relations Électives: Étude d’une communauté villageoise Haoussa byCall Number: GN490 .R39Publication Date: La Haye: Mouton [1973]
English translation of title is Normative Structures and Elective Relations: A study of a Hausa Village Community
- Studies in Hausa Language, Literature and Culture byCall Number: PL8231 .I58 1978Publication Date: Kano, Nigeria : Bayero University, Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, 1978
This is the published proceedings of the First International Conference on Hausa Language and Literature held at Bayero University, Kano, July 7-10, 1978 = Nahawu da Adabin Hausa: Tarin Takardun da aka Gabatar a Babban Taron Kara wa Juna Ilmi Kan Harshe da Adabin Hausa, a Jami’ar Bayero, Kano, 7 zuwa 10 ga Watan Yuli, 1978.
Historical and Cultural Texts
- Baba of Karo: A woman of the moslem Hausa byCall Number: DT515.45.H38 B32313 1964Publication Date: New York, Praeger [1964]
Uniform title for this book is Labarin Baba.
- Dangantakar adabin baka da al’adun gargajiya [Relationship between oral literature and olden times] byCall Number: PL8234.U63 D3 1987ISBN: 9781880155Publication Date: Kano: Madaba’ar Kamfanin Triumph, c1987A collection of customs, historical tales, proverbs, praise songs, poetry and drama in Hausa.
- Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century byCall Number: DT515.45.H38 H38 1991ISBN: 0299130207Publication Date: Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1991
- Labarin Baba: Mutuniyar Ƙaro ta ƙasar Kano byCall Number: DT515.45.H38 B323 1991Publication Date: Kano: Bayero University Library, 1991
"The English translation of this text was first published by Faber (London) in 1954 under the title Baba of Karo, a woman of the Muslim Hausa; it was republished by Yale University Press (New Haven) in 1981 .... The sequence in which events are described is not identical in the two versions. The order of Baba’s narrative in this Hausa version is not exactly as Baba dictated it; the English and Hausa versions re-ordered the text for greater continuity."--p. [v]
- Les Routes de l’Islam: Anthropologie politique de l’islamisation de l’Afrique de l’Ouest en général et du pays Hawsa en particulier du VIIIè au XIXè siècle byCall Number: BP64.A4 W362 1997ISBN: 273845688XPublication Date: Paris: Harmattan, c1997
English translation of title is The Routes of Islam: The political anthropology of the islamization of West Africa in general and the Hausa regions in particular in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Published in the Etudes Africaines (African Studies) Collections.
- Maganin Gargajiya na Afirka: Tare da mai da ƙarfi a kan nazarin itatuwan magani na Hausa da warkarwa byCall Number: GR880 .H334 1990Publication Date: [Zaria? : s.n.], 1990
The book discusses medicinal plants, their potency and the practice of African traditional medicine. Also available in English with the title African Traditional Medicine: A case study of Hausa medicinal plants and therapy
- Manual of Hausa Idioms byCall Number: PL8232 .B265 1979Publication Date: Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1979
- Mutumin Kirki: The concept of the good man in Hausa byCall Number: BJ1601 .K57 1974Publication Date: Bloomington: The African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1974
English translation of Mutum Kirki is "The Good Man". This text is a published version of the third Hans Wolff Memorial Lecture.
- Pilgrims in a Strange Land byCall Number: DT546.442 .W67ISBN: 023103976XPublication Date: 1976-12-01
- Rabe-Raben Adabin Hausa da Muhimmancinsa ga Rayuwar Hausawa [Types of Hausa Customs] byCall Number: PL8232 .D36 1984ISBN: 9781880104Publication Date: Kano: Madaba’ar Kamfanin ’Triumph’, 1984The text discusses traditional social divisions among the Hausa and their importance in the lives of the Hausa people.
- Saʼadu Zungur: An anthology of the social and political writings of a Nigerian nationalist byCall Number: PL8234.Z5 A6 1999ISBN: 9783292900Publication Date: Kaduna: Nigerian Defence Academy Press, 1999A collection of political writings and correspondences and poems in Hausa and English. Hausa poems and their English translations are juxtaposed on opposite pages in Part IV of the book.
- Structures Normatives et Relations Électives: Étude d’une communauté villageoise Haoussa byCall Number: GN490 .R39Publication Date: La Haye: Mouton [1973]
English translation of title is Normative Structures and Elective Relations: A study of a Hausa Village Community
- Studies in Hausa Language, Literature and Culture byCall Number: PL8231 .I58 1978Publication Date: Kano, Nigeria : Bayero University, Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, 1978
This is the published proceedings of the First International Conference on Hausa Language and Literature held at Bayero University, Kano, July 7-10, 1978 = Nahawu da Adabin Hausa: Tarin Takardun da aka Gabatar a Babban Taron Kara wa Juna Ilmi Kan Harshe da Adabin Hausa, a Jami’ar Bayero, Kano, 7 zuwa 10 ga Watan Yuli, 1978.
- Sur les Rives du Fleuve Niger: Contes sahéliens, recueillis en pays Haoussa, Zarma, Mandé, Peul, Manding, Banmanan, Dogon, Touareg, Bornouan, Mossi byCall Number: PL8013.F7 S87 2000ISBN: 2865370968Publication Date: Paris : Karthala, c2000English translation of title would be On the Banks of River Niger: Sahelian Stories from Hausa, Zarma, Mande, Fulani, Manding, Banmanan, Dogon, Touareg, Bornu and Mossi Peoples Published in the Contes et légendes series.
The Arts of the Hausa by Call Number: N7399.N5 H38ISBN: 0226688992Publication Date: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1977
The Hausa of Nigeria by Call Number: DT515.45.H38 S25 2010ISBN: 9780761847243Publication Date: Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, c2010- The living Culture of Nigeria byCall Number: DT515.4 .L785ISBN: 0175442010Publication Date: Lagos: Thomas Nelson (Nigeria) Ltd., 1976A presentation of different aspects and diversity of Nigerian culture, with photographic illustrations.
- The Spirits and their Cousins: Some aspects of belief, ritual, and social organization in a rural Hausa village in Niger byCall Number: BL2480.H3 F38Publication Date: Amherst: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 1975A research article in the University of Massachusetts' department of Anthropology research reports, vol. 15.
- Wayewar Kan Afirka Ta Dauri byCall Number: DT25 .A65155 1989ISBN: 2708705199Publication Date: Sokoto: Usmanu Danfodiyo University Press, c1989
Uniform title for this publications is Ancient civilizations of Africa: Hausa. Produced under the auspices of UNESCO's International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa.
