Loud Bubbles from a Silent Brook: Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary Hausa Prose Writing

Adamu, Abdalla Uba

doi:10.2979/ral.2006.37.3.133

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“…This tradition may have unintentionally affected the prevalence of recycling culture as applied to building materials as practiced by the current Hausa population of Kano, alongside other considerations. Additionally, the Hausa people are well known for their conservative outlook in a variety of contexts (Adamu, 2006; Whitsitt, 2003).…”

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Conceptualising an ethno‐mimetic model for effective buildings' end‐of‐life waste management: A Nigerian exemplar

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In most developed nations, a formal recycling industry oversees the management of solid waste. The opposite happens to be the case in underdeveloped nations wherein, the informal recycling sector has assumed such functions. The informal methods used in Nigeria for managing buildings' end‐of‐life situations has shown in many ways to be compliant with the sustainability goal since they provide an excellent example of how the waste hierarchy may evolve independently, with little or no assistance from policy and regulatory bodies. The purpose of this study is to conceptualise the processes through which salvaged materials from buildings in Kano State, Nigeria is processed in a step‐by‐step manner, ensuring that least amounts of materials end up in a landfill. Adopting a qualitative research design to achieve the study's aim, this study engaged 19 purposively selected experts through semi‐structured interviews in the city of Kano, Nigeria. The collected data was analysed using thematic analysis. Using the biomorphic adaptation of an African snail's shell, the study's findings led to the development of a conceptual model that depicts the actual scenario of handling demolition waste in Nigeria while highlighting the important elements and the inherent interactions among them. Based on these findings, the study recommends that the identified limitations in the Nigerian construction industry be addressed for the purposes of practice improvement and emergence of a comprehensive framework for the sustainable handling of building demolition waste (BDW).

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“…Additionally, the Hausa people are well known for their conservative outlook in a variety of contexts (Adamu, 2006;Whitsitt, 2003). Contrarily, another factor that adds to the practice's widespread use is the extant belief system.…”

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“… 3. In a monograph on earlier northern Nigerian fiction in English, Shirin Edwin (2016) spotlights novels by Zaynab Alkali, Hauwa Ali, and Abubakar Gimba as instances of what she terms African-Islamic feminism. For critical overviews of contemporary Hausa-language prose fiction, which this study does not consider, see Abdalla Uba Adamu (2006) and Carmen McCain (2014). …”

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Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction

Suhr-Sytsma¹

2022

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Africanist scholars continue to debate how best to frame Christian-Muslim encounters. Examining literary fiction that portrays interreligious conflict and dialogue in northern Nigeria, Suhr-Sytsma opens up an exchange between social scientists and Nigerian writers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Uwem Akpan, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and E. E. Sule. Suhr-Sytsma argues that, as social thinkers, Nigerian writers explore interreligious solidarity through forms of doubling and critique forms of sacrifice that authorize scapegoating. Consequently, contemporary Nigerian fiction raises fundamental questions not only about the relation of text to reality but also about the making and crossing of boundaries identified as religious.

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“…This paper focuses on the reading preferences of young female readers of Hausa popular romance genre in northern Nigeria that have been concern of literary educators, literary critics and social commentators on the production, distribution, genre and its readers. Therefore, Hausa popular romance genre is a contemporary prose fiction written by young authors both male and female that focuses on courtship, empowerment and social change (Adamu, 2006;Whitsitt, 2003). The purpose of this study is to describe the reading preferences of 10 young female readers of Hausa romance readers.…”

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Investigating the Reading Preferences of Young Female Readers of Hausa Popular Prose Fiction: A Feminist Approach

Kiyawa¹

2018

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Reading the story of popular romance fiction is the most powerful social activities among women in the Western countries, Europe, Asia and Africa for their leisure and enjoyment. In this study an attempt has been made to understand the reading habits and preferences of the young adult female readers of Hausa popular romance fiction, the contemporary romance fiction are popular because it deals with unimaginable relationship between men and female, the novels help them to solve some issues on courtship, ineqality, domestic violence and social change. In this study a face to face interviews was employed to collect their views, feelings and understanding of 10 young female readers through the Rosenblatt’s Reader-response theory (1978). The data were analyzed using the constant comparative method. The findings of the study indicated four main outcomes which revealed the major motivating factors which includes; (i ) image of flashy car appeared at the cover page (ii) image of beautiful flowers, (iii) image of golden ring (iv) Heart images, this images played a significant role for encouraging the readers to select a novel and read the story enjoy the freedom from breaking free of gender constraints through those stories consider it as part of their lives.

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Loud Bubbles from a Silent Brook: Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary Hausa Prose Writing

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Conceptualising an ethno‐mimetic model for effective buildings' end‐of‐life waste management: A Nigerian exemplar

Conceptualising an ethno‐mimetic model for effective buildings' end‐of‐life waste management: A Nigerian exemplar

Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction

Investigating the Reading Preferences of Young Female Readers of Hausa Popular Prose Fiction: A Feminist Approach

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