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French language a real tour de force around the world
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By Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau
IN a recent survey on attitudes toward bilingualism, carried out by the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, 72 per cent of Canadians said bilingualism was important, a sharp increase from the 56 per cent years ago. What's more, 84 per cent of Canadians said they believed that speaking French would help them get a good job.
The link between employability and bilingualism is not a Canadian phenomenon. Bilingualism is a growing trend the world over. What Canadians probably don't realize is that internationally, French is doing much better ...
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Hausa concepts of masculinity and the 'Yan Daudu.
Magazine article from: Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
; The Hausa category of 'yan daudu offers a challenge...such they challenge the rigid divisions of Hausa ideal culture between males and females...article examines the manner in which the Hausa people of Nigeria define ideal masculinity...
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Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; ...knowledge of the lives and experiences of Hausa women is Mary F. Smith's now classic...During colonial rule and since independence Hausa culture has undergone considerable processes...research about the changing conditions of Hausa women has been conducted. For instance...
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The Hausa video film: the call of the muezzin
Magazine article from: Film International
; Keywords: the Nigerian motion-picture industry, the Hausa video film, Kano State, Islam, Hausa film culture, Indian film, documentary, the Hausa novel, marriage, Soyyaya Introduction THE NIGERIAN MOTION picture is very...
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Validity and internal consistency of a Hausa version of the Ibadan knee/hip osteoarthritis outcome measure.(Research)(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
; ...major Nigerian indigenous languages are Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba [4]. Probably for...this study was to translate IKHOAM into Hausa language and to investigate its validity...and other West African countries where Hausa language is spoken. We hypothesized that...
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Women, religion and guilt in Hausa home video: an assessment
Magazine article from: Film International
; Keywords: Hausa society, Kano State, Islam, gender roles...1995: 17). According to Bilkisu Yusuf, Hausa women remain underrepresented, poorly...rights under Islam. The phenomenon of Hausa home video, which began in the 1990s...
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Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa.
Magazine article from: Africa
; ...50 million speakers of the language, the Hausa (predominant in their northern Nigerian heartland...historians. Perhaps because of the fact that Hausa is a linguistic rather than an ethnic entity the Hausa were one of the few major ethno-cultural...
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Poetry, Prose and Culture in Hausa.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; Hausa is one of the few major indigenous African languages whose...divination poetry, Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa is both a survey and an in-depth study of Hausa literature. Also, unlike works such as Isidore Okpewho...
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Currying favour: eastern media influences and the Hausa video film
Magazine article from: Film International
; ...denotes text missing in the original.) THE HAUSA VIDEO FILM was literally born in 1990 with the first Hausa language film, Turmin Danya in Kano, northern...in Nigeria from 1995, a total of 1,610 Hausa video films were officially recorded by the...
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Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song.(Sound recording review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Ethnologies
; Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song. By Beverly B. Mack. (Bloomington...In her recent publication, Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song, Beverly Mack explores song and poetry among Hausa women in Kano, Nigeria. Basing her observations...
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Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa
Magazine article from: African Studies Review
; Abstract: This study of contemporary Hausa literature analyzes a northern Nigerian...as Kano market literature and known to Hausa speakers as Littattafan Soyayya (books...the conservative Muslim environment of Hausa society. On the surface, the novels are...
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