Being and Becoming Hausa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Hausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers' attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given only partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw f...