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Hausa Tales and Traditions: Being a translation of Frank Edgar's Tatsuniyoyi Na Hausa Hardcover - 1969

by Neil Skinner (Editor)


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First Published in 1969. This is a translation from Hausa of Frank Edgar's three volumes of his African folktale, Tatsunijoyi Na Hausa, his major work. The Hausa whose folklore Edgar recorded so industriously are the largest ethnic group in Northern Nigeria and number many millions.

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  • Title Hausa Tales and Traditions: Being a translation of Frank Edgar's Tatsuniyoyi Na Hausa
  • Author Neil Skinner (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition This the First C
  • Pages 475
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London England
  • Date 1969-04-01
  • ISBN 9780714617183 / 0714617180
  • Weight 1.96 lbs (0.89 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.38 x 1.39 in (23.72 x 16.21 x 3.53 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 70414659
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209

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Neil Skinner University of California, Los Angeles.
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London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited, 1969. This is the first complete translation of Frank Edgar's TATSUNIYOYI NA HAUSA, a three volume Corpus of Hausa Folklore, History and Miscellanea The Original Hausa Volumes Contain 1200 Pages, Comprising 800 Individual Items, Ranging from Riddles to Lengthy Eyewitness Accounts of the British Occupation and Events Immediately Preceding It. There is One seventy Page Legal item, a version of the Risala (a summary of the maliki code of muslim law which was in use in Nigeria at that time). The Translation Is Also in Three Volumes, but the Order Has Been Rearranged to Bring the Folklore into the First Two Volumes and the Other matter into the Last volume. The Folklore Itself Has Been Arranged so That the Variants and Tales of Similar Genre appear in the Same Section. A Concordance Has Been Added to Each Volume to Enable Reference to Be Made to the Original Hausa Volumes. Cross-References Are Also Given to Other Collections of Hausa tales in… Read More
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