Specimens of Hausa Literature

Cambridge University Press, 1896. — 140 p.THE Manuscripts forming the present collection were obtained in different parts of the Hausa States of Western Central Africa, the first three by my brother the late Rev. John Alfred Robinson, and the remainder by me. The issue of the present volume is a firstfruit of the work of the "Hausa Association" which was formed in 1891 "for the purpose of promoting the study of the Hausa language and people." The original MSS. are on paper of Egyptian manufacture, which had been brought by nativecaravans across the Sahara.