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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring ethnic identity and heritage language proficiency among second-generation Hausa Saudis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Applied Linguistics
This article reports a part of a larger study which examines the sociolinguistic dynamics within the Hausa community in Saudi Arabia. It focuses on how second-generation members of the Hausa Saudi community perceive their ethnic identity and ...
Morad Alsahafi
doaj   +1 more source

“Komai Nisan Dare, Akwai Wani Online”: Social Media and the Emergence of Hausa Neoproverbs

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
This paper interrogates the changing paradigm in the evolution of traditional African proverbs in the postcolonial setting in which Hausa youth create proverbs centered around the power of both social media and their technologies.
Abdalla Uba Adamu
doaj   +1 more source

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Distance and Visibility: Two Systems in Hausa Deixis [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2008
The current standard account of Hausa deixis claims that Hausa has a linear person-based system with the following four locative adverbs and their interpretations: nân 'here', nan 'there near you', cân 'there away from you and me', and can 'over there ...
Abdoulaye, Mahamane L.
doaj   +3 more sources

National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
wiley   +1 more source

Nazarin adabin Hausa. Matsalolinsa da fa’idojinsa ga ɗalibai ‘yan ƙasashen waje

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006
This paper essentially highlighted some of the problems and prospects that a foreign student studying Hausa may come across. As a background, the meaning and content of Hausa literature, the brief historical analysis of how Hausa literary studies were ...
Abdulƙadir Ɗangambo
doaj  

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