This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the
Hausa-speaking people of West Africa. At the time of publication
there were perhaps as many as 15 million Hausa-speaking people in
the area, most of whom lived in the countryside in northern Nigeria
and the neighbouring Niger Republic. This book is at once an
examination of the socio-economic life of a small Hausa village and
a study of the way of life of the rural Hausa generally. The book
as a whole provides a wide-ranging survey both of what was known
and of what was, and in some cases still is, little understood.
Very few books had been written on the rural Hausa, much of the
literature consisting of scarce pamphlets and official reports;
this book not only reports important research, but also surveys
literature which was otherwise not generally available. The themes
which emerge from this study are similar to many which Polly Hill
has stressed elsewhere: people who do not fit into crude
stereotypes and socio-economic life are always much more varied and
sophisticated than superficial observers would suppose.
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