Bibliography, sources & further reading

Bibliography

Works consulted for this site. In-text source lines give the author, year and the pages or sections used. The articles paraphrase these works and report disagreements between scholars; they are not substitutes for the originals.

Main sources

1. Salamone, Frank A. The Hausa of Nigeria. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7618-4724-3. (A collection of ethnographic studies, many based on fieldwork in Yauri Emirate and among the Hausa of Sabon Gari, Ibadan.)
2. Anonymous. The Hausa People of West Africa: An Exhaustive Ethnographic, Historical, and Cultural Analysis. Unsigned, undated overview supplied to the editor. Used only as a topic outline and for its estimates; its web and social-media references are not relied on, and figures that could not be checked are not repeated.

Further scholarship cited

1. Newman, Paul. The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
2. Palmer, H. R. Sudanese Memoirs, vol. 3. Lagos: Government Printer, 1928 (includes the translation of the Kano Chronicle).
3. Last, Murray. The Sokoto Caliphate. London: Longmans, 1967.
4. Lovejoy, Paul E. “The Role of the Wangara in the Economic Transformation of the Central Sudan in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.” Journal of African History 19, no. 2 (1978): 173–193.
5. Greenberg, Joseph H. The Influence of Islam on a Sudanese Religion. New York: J. J. Augustin, 1946.
6. Lovejoy, Paul E. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
7. Paden, John N. Religion and Political Culture in Kano. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
8. Loimeier, Roman. Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997.
9. Furniss, Graham. Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 1996.
10. Masquelier, Adeline. Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
11. Gaudio, Rudolf P. Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
12. Falola, Toyin, and Matthew M. Heaton. A History of Nigeria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
13. Cruciani, Fulvio, et al. “Human Y chromosome haplogroup R-V88: a paternal genetic record of early mid Holocene trans-Saharan connections and the spread of Chadic languages.” European Journal of Human Genetics 18 (2010): 800–807.
14. Moughtin, J. C. Hausa Architecture. London: Ethnographica, 1985.
15. Larkin, Brian. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
16. Paden, John N. Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Democratic Federalism in Nigeria. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2005.
17. Jaggar, Philip J. Hausa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001.
18. Bargery, G. P. A Hausa–English Dictionary and English–Hausa Vocabulary. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.
19. Abraham, R. C. Dictionary of the Hausa Language. 2nd ed. London: University of London Press, 1962.
20. Cohen, Abner. Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
21. Schildkrout, Enid. People of the Zongo: The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
22. Coles, Catherine, and Beverly Mack, eds. Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
23. Boyd, Jean. The Caliph’s Sister: Nana Asma’u, 1793–1865, Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader. London: Frank Cass, 1989.
24. Smith, Mary F. Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
25. Reis, João José. Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia. Trans. Arthur Brakel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.