Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

HAU 109 — Pre-Danfodio Literature

HAU department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• explain the relevance of literary history
• identify and examine the factors responsible for dearth of written literary materials in hausa prior to the debut of danfodio; and
• appreciate the efforts of literary historians in unearthing some literary resources that were hitherto unavailable

Course contents

The course aims at drawing student’s attention to this sparsely documented area of Hausa literary history as well as identifying and examining the factors responsible for this. The transition from Arabic to Hausa literary composition resulting in the production of the works of such scholars as Wali Danmarina, will also be studied.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study HAU 109.

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