TITLE: Hausaland
AUTHOR: Aliyu Kamal
PUBLISHER: Informart, Kaduna
YEAR: 2003
PAGES: 219
BLURB: In the few years before the advent of British colonialism in the area to be known later as Nigeria, an adventurous young man, Fillo, set out in search of “a man with a snake in his belly”. The Fulani nomad encountered, along the way, incidents that are at once strange, but also funny and horrifying.
In a style merging myth with reality, Aliyu Kamal has crafted a wonderful tale, making Hausaland one of the significant literary works to come out of Africa in recent years.
THE AUTHOR: Aliyu Kamal is a senior lecturer in the Department of English and European Languages, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. He teaches language and linguistics at under- and post-graduate levels. Hausaland is his first published novel.
