Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

List of Illustrations

pp.：  7 – 8

List of Maps

pp.：  9 – 10

Contributors

pp.：  11 – 14

Preface

pp.：  15 – 16

Note on Language and Transcription

pp.：  17 – 18

Chapter One Hausa Identity: Language, History and Religion

pp.：  19 – 52

Chapter Two The Role of Comparative/Historical Linguistics in Reconstructing the Past: What Borrowed and Inherited Words Tell Us About the Early History of Hausa

pp.：  53 – 76

Chapter Three Ancient Labels and Categories: Exploring the ‘Onomastics’ of Kano

pp.：  77 – 102

Chapter Four More Rural than Urban? The Religious Content and Functions of Hausa Proverbs and Hausa Verbal Compounds

pp.：  103 – 130

Chapter Five Being and Becoming Hausa in Ader

pp.：  131 – 158

Chapter Six Kufan Kanawa, Niger: The Former Kano?

pp.：  159 – 182

Chapter Seven Kirfi, Bauchi: An Archaeological Investigation of the Hausa Landscape

pp.：  183 – 204

Chapter Eight The Hausa Textile Industry: Origins and Development in the Precolonial Period

pp.：  205 – 230

Chapter Nine Clothing and Identity: How Can Museum Collections of Hausa Textiles Contribute to Understanding the Notion of Hausa Identity?

pp.：  231 – 252

Chapter Ten God Made Me a Rapper: Young Men, Islam, and Survival in an Age of Austerity

pp.：  253 – 274

Chapter Eleven Engendering a Hausa Vernacular Christian Practice

pp.：  275 – 296

Chapter Twelve Hausa as a Process in Time and Space

pp.：  297 – 316

Index

pp.：  317 – 325