TITLE:
An Exploration of Hausa Verbal Art Forms in Shaihu Umar: A Hausa Novel
AUTHORS:
Chaibou Elhadji Oumarou
KEYWORDS:
Verbal Art, Tale, Novel, Interface
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Literary Study,
Vol.3 No.1,
January
28,
2015
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.