Maalam Shaihua: 2 books

Hausa Folk Lore by Maalam Shaihua, Translated By R. Sutherland Rattray One of the few African folklore books actually written by an African, not a European. Mr. Rattray furnishes a case in point. When he joined our School of Anthropology, he was already a past-master in all that relates...

Hausa Folk-Lore by Maalam Shaihua "Hausa Folk-lore is a book by Maalam Shaihua, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray, published in 1913. It contains twenty-one folk-stories of the Hausa people of Africa. The book is notable in that it was actually written by one of the Hausa, not a European, as is common in such books from the time period."