Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century

The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention of historians, political economists, linguists and anthropologists. The large body of scholarship on Hausa society, however, has assumed the subordination of to men. This work refutes the notion that Hausa are pawns in a patriarchal Muslim society. The contributors, all of whom have done field research in Hausaland, explore the ways Hausa have balanced the demands of Islamic expectations and Western choices as their society moved from a pre-colonial system through British colonial administration to inclusion in the modern Nigerian nation. The book examines the roles of a wide variety of women, from wives and workers, to political activists and mythical figures, and it emphasizes that have been educators and spiritual leaders in Hausa society since pre-colonial times. From royalty to slaves and concubines, in traditional Hausa cities and in newer towns, from the urban poor to the newly educated elite, the invisible women whose lives are documented here demonstrate that standard accounts of Hausa society should be revised

African studies · Anthropology of religion · Archaeology · Hausa · History of religions · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria

• Changing Patterns of Marriage Courtship among the Hausas

  Open Access•Mustapha Hashim Kurfi•Journal of Sociological Research•2012

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• Feminist or Simply Feminine

  Chukwuma Azuonye•Meridians•2006

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• Daura and gender in the creation of a Hausa national epic

  Mary Wren Bivins•African Languages and Cultures•1997

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• Nana Asma'u, her elegies and the possibility of ‘insider alternatives’

  Nikki Merritt•African Languages and Cultures•1994

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• Consumption, Prostitution, and Reproduction

  Open Access•Adeline Masquelier•American Ethnologist•1995

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• Perceptions of Population Policy, Development, and Family Planning Programs in Northern Nigeria

  Elisha P Renne•Studies in Family Planning•1996

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• Women, Men, and Patriarchal Bargaining in an Islamic Sufi Order

  Open Access•Alaine S Hutson•Gender & Society•2001

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• Education and Islamic Trends in Northern Nigeria

  Muhammad Sani Umar•Africa Today•2001

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• Matan Bariki, 'Women of the Barracks' Muslim Hausa Women in an Urban Neighbourhood in Northern Nigeria

  Open Access•Katja Werthmann•Africa•2002

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• Doglientiri

  Open Access•Barbara Meier•Africa•1999

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