Baba

(18) Biography (1) (18) Biography of Women (1) 1DBF (1) 9780300027419 Daughter of a Hausa farmer and Koranic teacher (1) Africa (5) African women (1) and courageous personality remains a classic in the field of African studies and a uniquely valuable account of a Muslim society in West Africa. (1) and explains the Hausa institutions of bond friendship (1) and kinship (1) and she has left a fascinating and valuable record of Hausa life in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Baba describes Hausa male-oriented society from a woman's point of view (1) anthropology (4) Baba became Mary Smith's friend in 1949 (1) biography (3) children are not exclusively dependent on their biological parents for emotional support. First published in 1945 and now reissued with a new foreword by Hilda Kuper (1) Hausa (Nigeria) (1) humorous (1) Ich bin eine Spinne na und? (1) in a society that permits easy and frequent divorce (1) literature (1) narrating not only her own life history but stories of other women who were close to her. She tells of Hausa domestic life (1) Nigeria (3) polygynous marriage (1) showing how (1) SO (1) The Nigeria Collection (1) this autobiography of a shrewd (1) TUN-81 (1) when M. G. and Mary Smith were engaged in fieldwork in Nigeria. In daily sessions for several weeks Baba dictated her life story (1) which Mrs. Smith has translated from the Hausa. The old woman's memories reached back to the days of slave raids and interstate warfare before the British occupation (1) Women's Studies; Baba (1)