Description: An envelope containing two copies, one in English typescript and the other in Hausa Arabic scripts: the content is a history of the Sudan south of the Sahara including their aboriginal kings and their traditions. Both copies translated from the original Arabic written publications. E...
The songs on the flight to Dibde-na [A.H 1263/1846 A.D]
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Description: An envelope containing an English translation in typescripts of a song on the flight to a village called Dibda-na in Sokoto. Extent and format of original material: 5 items in paper format. Physical characteristics of original: The material has become brittle and yellowish with age. ...
Description: An envelope containing three copies of different translations viz. Arabic, English typescripts and Hausa/Arabic. All copied and translated from the original. The book is relating the gist of the history of Sokoto from the hijira of Sheikh Uthman Fodio to the occupation of the whitema...
Description: An envelope containing the philosophy on the history of the world in both Arabic and English typescripts. Extent and format of original material: 42 items in paper format. Physical characteristics of original: The material has become brittle and yellowish with age. Most of the papers...
Description: An envelope containing the history of the Fulani jihad and the spread of the Islamic faith in the Hausa states. Extent and format of original material: 21 items in paper format. Physical characteristics of original: The material has become brittle and yellowish with age. Most of the ...
Description: A treatise containing eulogies for eminent Fulani Jihad leaders particularly Sultan Bello Fodio. Extent and format of original material: 26 items in paper format. Physical characteristics of original: The material has become brittle and yellowish with age. Most of the papers are abou...
Description: An envelope containing two copies in Arabic and English typescripts. The content is the translation from the original of the compiled history of the life of Sultan Muhammad Bello Fodio. Extent and format of original material: 65 items in paper format. Physical characteristics of ori...
Description: A file containing two Arabic copies 24 and 28 pages, two Ar. Hausa copies 60 and 22 pages and one English typescript copy respectively: "Siradul kala-mi" is the history of Abdulsalam of Kware a renowned Hausa mallam (not a Fulani) and one of the earliest disciples of Sheikh Usman Fod...
Description: A file containing the history of the emirs of Sokoto. Extent and format of original material: 106 items in paper format. Physical characteristics of original: The material has become brittle and yellowish with age. Most of the papers are about 8 1/2 by 11 inches in size.