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Contents Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter 1 Women and Stories, Scholars and Texts: Women¿s Voices in Nineteenth Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate Chapter 2 Missions to Hausaland: European Observations, Investigations and Conversations Chapter 3 In Praise of Farming: Women, Food and Identity in kasar Hausa Chapter 4 ¿A story, a story. Let it come. Let it go.¿ The Narrative Landscapes and Social Spaces of Storytelling Chapter 5 ¿If A Man Does Not Want You.¿ Stories of Marriage and Crisis in Hausa Families Chapter 6 ¿Womenfolk Take Heed!¿ Muslim Wives and Hausa Marriages: Lessons from Sokoto Chapter 7 Telling Stories, Making History: Women, Narrative and Historical Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Hausaland Notes Bibliography Map
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women, Hausa -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Women, Hausa -- Language -- History -- 19th century.
Women, Hausa -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Storytelling -- Fulani Empire -- History.
Muslim women -- Fulani Empire -- Social conditions.
Sex role -- Fulani Empire -- History.
Islam -- Social aspects -- Fulani Empire -- History.
Fulani Empire -- Social conditions.
Nigeria, Northern -- Social conditions.
Niger -- Social conditions.