The 30 million Hausa of northern Nigeria have a history going back more than a 1,000 years. Theirs is a rich and vibrant culture, but also a patriarchal one. And in recent years, the region has been ...

Fitacciyar tauraruwar fina-finan Amurka Jada Pinkett Smith ta bayyana wa mijinta Will Smith cewa ta yi soyayya da mawakin nan August Alsina. Ta bayyana wa Smith hakan ne a wani shirinta na Facebook ...

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Photographer Glenna Gordon shares beautiful pictures and stories of Hausa women writing romance fiction stories in the shadow of Islamist censors and militants in northern Nigeria. Meet these Hausa ...

The first thing you notice about Glenna Gordon’s book Diagram of the Heart is that it’s small. Small enough to fit in a coat pocket. It has a soft cover too. It is a design that purposefully mimics ...

Kano, Nigeria – She was taken out of primary school at the age of 12 to marry a man in his 40s whom she had never met before. At first, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu enjoyed the presents she received at the ...

The novels and films about the big West African ethnic group Hausa are very popular, albeit barely penetrating the language border. Carmen McCain has not just done her doctorate on Hausa literature ...

Before I went to northern Nigeria for the first time, I read the 1990 Nigerian romance novel Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home, thought to be the first Hausa-language novel by a woman to be ...