Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century

Contributors

Contributors Janet Beik completed her doctorate in African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984. Before that, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1976-78) and researched Hausa theater as a Fulbright scholar, also in Niger (1980-81). At present, she is a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State, with tours in Sudan, Canada, and The Gambia since 1985. Allan Christelow studies the social history of North and West Africa using Islamic legal records. His publications include Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria (Princeton University Press, 1985). He taught at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria, from 1978 to 1982 and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of History at Idaho State University. Catherine Coles received her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of WisconsinMadison and has taught at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and at Dartmouth College . She has published articles on Hausa women as well as an extensive bibliography on Nigerian women and "Demographic Surveys and Nigerian Women" (Signs 15 [January 1990]) with Barbara Entwisle. Her research interests include Muslim women, urban life cross-culturally, processes of aging, and legal systems as they are embedded within particular cultures. She is currently attending law school in Boston. Barbara Callaway serves as Acting Dean of the graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., where she is also a Professor of Political Science. She is the author of Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria and of articles on political development, political change, and women and politics. During 1981-83, she was a Fulbright Professor at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. Roberta Ann Dunbar is a social historian in the Curriculum in African and AfroAmerican Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches courses on African women and on African art, literature, and civilization. Her original field research concerned the nineteenth-century history of Damagaram (Zinder, Nigeria ). More recently she has focused her research and writing on the consequences for African women of the interaction of Muslim and civil law in francophone West Africa, especially Niger and Senegal. Nicole Echard is an ethnologist and Directeur de recherche to the French National Center for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.). She has done field research in rural Niger among the Hausa, Tuareg, and Songha! peoples. Her research interests include history of settlement, iron metallurgy, religion, and gender relations. 289 290 Contributors Alan Frishman is a Professor of Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges . He has been researching the economic and spatial growth of Kano, Nigeria, for almost two decades. He has written numerous articles and chapters in books on smallscale enterprises, general economic activity, housing, squatter settlements, land tenure, popUlation growth, and transportation in metropolitan Kano. Ayesha M. Imam is a lecturer and researcher in the Sociology Department at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. Her main areas of work have been in gender relations, ideology, and mass communication. She is also active in the women's movement in Nigeria. Beverly Mack lived in northern Nigeria for three years, where she conducted research on Hausa women's poetic artistry and the lives of women in the emir's harem. During that time she was a Fulbright scholar and taught at Bayero University in Kano. She has taught at Georgetown and Yale Universities and now teaches African literature and Hausa cultural studies at George Mason University. Deborah Pellow is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She has done field research in both Ghana and Nigeria. Her publications include articles on gender and ethnicity and the coauthored book Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty. Her current research interest is the interrelationship of social and physical space (cultural aspects of design) in Africa and Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Priscilla Starratt taught African History from 1975 to 1989 at Bayero University, Kano, where she was Senior Lecturer. Since then she has been teaching Hausa Language and Culture at Boston University. Connie Stephens is currently Deputy Chief of the African Division of Voice of America. When she wrote the chapter on Hausa tatsuniyoyi she was chief of VOA's Hausa Language Service. From 1981 to 1984 she worked with the National Languages Section of Niger's National Curriculum Institute (I.N.D.R.A.P.) on a maternal languages textbook project for Niger's experimental schools. Balaraba B.M. Sule is a graduate of Bayero University, Kano. She...