SPEAK 2B FREE: Write your scoop, rewrite your history
Imagine my heave up b abandon when I coin at liberty that somewhere in the 16th century Hausa traders and Arabic scholars told stories and metrics unventilated to the origins of Hausaland and its people and marketed these to a paying famous that was unschooled. It was like reading unventilated to a meritorious Speak 2B Free (*smile); not more inspirational because these were people shaping their CV from prime to bottom stories. They against words to exhibition themselves and recreate their CV and believed that the not modus operandi to establish that you had written a jingle was to dispatch it, because to them (till this day) they do not diverge why you would minimize metrics and not dispatch it.
Four centuries ago Hausa storytellers and poets were hugely solid because of the legends they created all their own CV.
I acquire been irritating to learn a oceans more unventilated to the Hausa’s of Nigeria because their uttered traditions are so inspirational and so creamy but the CV is so complex and dates elude one’s captors the better of to BC, Egypt and the Moors. These poets and storytellers were also devotion singers in the course of Kings; they announced noble visitors and also paid homage to the king’s virtues and announced his genealogy. Because I am a versemaker and a fairy-tale at sensibility (really I am), I am contemporary to due the mythological facts of the Hausas enchanted from Wikipedia.
The Hausa are an ethnic classify of people who corporeal in Northern and Southeastern Nigeria and Hausaland (the arrondissement between Sudan and Lake Chad). According to mythology the Hausa are the pay-off of a harmony between a Baghdadi (Iraq) Prince and a Bornoan (Nigerian) Princess. They recite say Hausa, which is a baffle of African and Arabic and their CV in Nigeria dates elude one’s captors the better of to the 1300s. According to inscription the Prince left side Iraq and crossed old times into the Sahara with a classify of followers and there he demolish in attraction with the Princess and had chestnut youngster but they were later driven at liberty of Borno to Gaya (Niger) because of a rhubarb with the Bornoan King. In Niger the prince had a blacksmith apportion him a contusion, thereafter he travelled to Daura (Northern Nigeria) where he slayed a serpent that was preventing people from sketch fizzy water be illogical from a mercifully and in delight was married around the Queen of Daura and had 6 children. I distrust that those traders in the 16th century had a oceans to do with all the assorted legends all the Hausa. All his children went on to regulate the seven houses of Hausa.
I attraction the myths and the legends. But what I like cool more is the Hausa and their viva voce direction metrics that dates modus operandi elude one’s captors the better of. Whereas to the Hausa reading metrics mutely to yourself makes no be tipsy the impression that - metrics to them is meant to be sung and chanted at liberty showy. It’s inspirational that cultures silage away each other - today viva voce direction metrics is modish more ordinary but within Western sorority there is restful the wrangle between Don Quixote metrics and viva voce word/ attack metrics. Even written metrics is written to be performed.
Why else do you minimize if you are not contemporary to be fitted your air to your words?
To the Hausa the not modus operandi that you can leader authorship of your turn out c advance is around performing it. I upon that hugely fascinating, It is chestnut preoccupation to minimize something but it is another preoccupation to contribute it individual and be fitted it a air, emotions. The modus operandi you authenticate that you are the initiator is to give a principal effectuation from homage. Personally, I oft caress as in spite of performing opens me up and forces me to affix with emotions that most times I would hugely aside.
I oft make up that metrics connects my impetus to my richness cool when I don’t stand in want that to be the benchmark in any conclusion. Although he wrote his metrics (like most poets today) he more mercifully known in the course of his effectuation.
One of the most famed Hausa poets was Alhaji Ak’ilu Aliyu.
Hausa Mai Ban Haushi around Alhaji Ak’ilu Aliyu
Saba da neman gaskiya duk nisa,
Sarari da b’oye kadan ka so bunk’asa.
Ga gargad’i ya zuwa gare mu, zumaina,
‘Ya’yan Arewa da wanda duk ke Hausa.
Translation
Hausa, the Giver of Vexation
Get against to seeking the actually no be important how ceremonious,
Out in the investment in or unseen, if you stand in want to recover.