Studies in African Languages and Cultures. Special Issue 2024. Hausa texts from Maradi (Niger) collected by Claude Gouffé in 1968 (with annotations in French) (PDF)

Special Issue 2024 'Hausa texts from Maradi (Niger) collected by Claude Gouffé in 1968 (with annotations in French)' is present an edition of texts of the Hausa oral tradition from Niger. The publication is the result of an international collaboration aiming at perpetuating Hausa language and culture and making source texts in the language available to researchers. The editors of the volume are Sergio Baldi, Nina Pawlak and Jibril Shu'aibu Adamu – Hausanists from the Africanist centres in Naples, Warsaw and Kano, assisted by French Africanist Henry Tourneux. The texts, originally in the form of handwritten fieldwork notes, are the legacy of the eminent French Hausa language and culture scholar Claude Gouffé (1926-2013). The edition preserves the original orthographic rules and Gouffé’s comments on linguistic forms and content.

The transcripts of interviews with a speaker of the dialectal variety of Hausa from Niger are presented in thematically distinct sections: ethnographic texts, oral literature texts (stories) and praise poetry (kirari).

The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International PL (CC BY-SA 4.0 PL) (full license available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode).