This dissertation examines the roles of women in Hausa tatsuniyoyi (folktales) from an Afrocentric and womanist perspective. In African societies, the culture depends on the oral tradition for survival. Thus the information we gather from oral literature gives us insight about a…
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This study examined factors affecting the food systems and nutritional strategies of Hausa people living in contrasting ecological zones in Niger. The first research community is in a more northern pastoral region while the second community is in a savanna zone, which is ecologi…
This dissertation analyzes language games in six languages of Niger. These languages are: Fulfulde, Gurmancema, Hausa, Kanuri, Tamajaq and Zarma-Songhai. These languages are from different linguistic families, thus the typological similarities revealed in the structures of their…
This study is an exploration of how Hausa society in Niamey, Niger experiences and responds to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with special attention to the ways in which fundamental social structures and cultural factors contribute to differing levels of STI vulnerabili…
The relative ease of cooperation in rural African societies is an open question. Why, when and under what conditions does cooperation arise, and how is it sustained? Through an analysis of women's savings and credit associations created by rural Hausa women, this study ties the …
This thesis examines the materiality and practice of West African indigenous/'traditional' medicine through an archaeological ethnographic study engaging with contemporary healing specialists in a migrant community of Accra, Ghana. It makes an original contribution to knowledge …
This dissertation is the first major study to address the history of Hausa diasporic communities in the Cameroon Grassfields. Both a social and legal history of this largely Muslim population, it focuses on the ways in which geographic dispersal and complex hierarchies of gender…
This dissertation is a study of Hausa culture in northern Nigeria which focuses on intersubjective perceptions and expressions of suffering which shape self-consciousness and group membership. It relies heavily upon post-colonial and person-centered approaches to suffering and d…
Based on fourteen months of archival and ethnographic field research in Kano, Nigeria, this study examines discourses of healing and possession associated with the pantheon of Hausa spirits called bori over the last two centuries. Since the 1804-1812 jihad of Shehu Usman 'dan Fo…
During the last twenty years Muslim women in West Africa have become more involved in development (education, economic, health) work through the establishment of non-governmental (NGOs) and community based organizations (CBOs). In order to contribute to scholarship in these area…