An Exploration of Hausa Verbal Art Forms in Shaihu Umar: A Hausa Novel

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Author(s)  

Chaibou Elhadji Oumarou^*

 

Affiliation(s)

Department of English, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey, Niger.

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the Hausa verbal art forms in Shaihu Umar, a novel first published in the Hausa language and then translated into English. The paper mostly focuses on the author’s use of the structures of a Hausa initiation tale as a vehicle for the narrative in the novel. In other words, the paper attempts to investigate how the author uses the structures of Hausa tales for stylistic effects. As a result, the paper tries to identify and analyze what the novel owes to the indigenous Hausa literary tradition as an illustration of the interface between orality and literacy.

 

KEYWORDS

Verbal Art, Tale, Novel, Interface

Cite this paper

Oumarou, C. (2015) An Exploration of Hausa Verbal Art Forms in Shaihu Umar: A Hausa Novel. Advances in Literary Study, 3, 21-29. doi: 10.4236/als.2015.31004.

 

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