BIJIREWA A WAKOKIN SIYASA: BINCIKE KAN WAKOKIN 1903-2015
BIJIREWA A WAKOKIN SIYASA: BINCIKE KAN WAKOKIN 1903-2015
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2016-05
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IDRIS, YAHAYA
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Abstract
Poetry, whether oral or written, is a way of disseminating message in a particular
way that educates and at times elicits pleasure. For long, Hausa poems are used in
propagating political messages be it voters registration or campaigns or the
conduct of election itself. The study of resistance in Hausa political poetry has
received little attention. By the tradition of Hausa poetic studies, critics normally
study theme, style and plot of literary works. Literary analysis on resistance in
Hausa political poetry is to some extent a new a phenomenon in Hausa literature.
Based on this, some poems written due to the emergence of colonialism and the
ones during the first, second, third and fourth republics were studied, in order to
understand how people showed their resistance towards leaders and some
policies. At the end, it was understood that, in all the history of political
dispensation since the time of colonialism to the present political regime, there
have been some elements of resistance in most of the Hausa political poems. The
work is devided into five chapters. Chapter one consists of general introduction,
where the significance of the research, aim and objectives hypothesis and scope
and delimitations were discussed. Chapter two constitute literature review which
treated works related to the research whether positively or otherwise. While
chapter three dealt with resistance poems during colonialism and the one before
the advent of full democracy, chapter four is devoted to the analysis of resistance
poems in Hausaland after the advent of full democracy as reflected in the poems
studied. Chapter five, which is the concluding chapter, discussed the summary of
the whole work, and research findings viz, till date there are political poems with
some element of resistance, and to this time the 21st century there are resistance
poems and most of the poems studied potray political theme with elements of
resistance socially, economically and otherwise.
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A Thesis submitted to the School of Post Graduate Studies, Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, In Partial Fulfilment of the requirements for the Award of
Doctorate Degree in African Literature (Hausa),
Department of African Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
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BIJIREWA,, WAKOKIN SIYASA,, BINCIKE KAN WAKOKIN,, 1903-2015,