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Synopsis
There are as many as 15 million Hausa-speaking people in West Africa, most living in northern Nigeria and the neighbouring Niger republic. This wide-ranging survey of both what is known and what is little-understood includes a socio-economic study of life in a small Hausa village as well as a study of rural Hausa generally.
Synopsis
This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa.
Table of Contents
List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations and conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. Batagarawa; 3. Fathers and sons in gandu; 4. The evidence for economic inequality; 5. Further aspects of inequality; 6. The sale of manured farmland; 7. Migration; 8. Farm-labouring; 9. Local trade in grains and groundnuts; 10. Individual poverty; 11. Individual viability; 12. Short-term stability; 13. The absence of âclassâ; 14. Concluding speculations; Commentary, including Hausa glossary; Bibliography; Index.