A man identified as @cuzzy00 on twitter has although acknowledged the fact that Hausa ladies are pretty, but was swift to also mention that they are quite terrible when it comes to expressing their ...

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. Photographer Glenna ...

In Nigeria, stereotypes don’t just live in jokes and social media banter, they shape how people see and treat women. Many of these harmful ideas are tied to ethnic identities, meaning that a Yoruba ...

Ya Mace or The Girl-Child by Safiyya Jibril has won this year’s BBC Hausa Short Story Writing Contest for Women. Safiyya is a 29 year-old secondary school teacher studying for her Master’s degree in ...

Includes English translations of Hausa poems and texts. Reviewed by Clare A. Ignatowski in African studied review (New Brunswick, NJ) 49 (1) April 2006, pages 170-172. (DT1.A1 A26 AFA). The singers ...

Kaduna — Recently, we carried a letter in which a reader reacted to a poem, "Hausa Woman", by a lady who painted the picture of marriage of Muslim women in Hausa land as one of victimisation. The ...