Reflections on Islamic values and the use of Arabo-Islamic vocabulary in the Wakoki of Maazou Dan Alalo
This paper proposes to reflect on the islamisation of Hausa poetry using the example of the wakoki (songs) of Maazou Dan Alalo. Maazou. Born between 1906 and 1910, at Kiyauka, Katsina in today’s Nigeria, he died on 29 November 2002. Though not a griot by birth, he became the bard of the chief of his...
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/7629 |