Hausa Novels & Stories

Sarah said raising her injured hands in salutation and Christabel burst into fits of wild giggles. "Eh!, Christabel, blood is dripping from your head!" She screamed concern edged in her sluggish voice slanting her pain. Again, that sharp, sluggish, acquainted and chummy screams. 💥💥💥 Glossary of Nigerian words according to how it is used in the chapter. Jahwe - it is fondly added to words to show their emergency. Oya - it means do fast or be fast. Olofofo - busy-body. Khaki no be leather - it was used to show or tell how crucial one could be.

(who are you looking for), the gateman asked in his Hausa intonation. "Please, am looking for Uncle Richard that's stays here", Rose explained. "You dey find Oga Richard, I dey come to make I call am," (You are asking for my boss Mr. Richard, just a minute, let me call him) the gateman said as he closed the gate and went into the house. A few minutes later he came out with Uncle Richard. "Welcome Rose, how is everything over there? How are your parents? Please come inside", Uncle Richard said as he and the gateman helped her with her bags.

That’s my dad. ************************************************************************************************************ “…Ke ihe ino neme?”- What were you doing? “…ke ihe i neme ebea”- what are you here? They are Igbo words. Igbo is a tribe in eastern Nigeria What is your country and local language readers? Tell me in the comments

She finished her breakfast on time, she sauntered out of the house after bidding them adieu. "Mallam Audu, I'm ready." she called standing next to the car that's taking her to school. "Ina yini Mallam Audu," she greet him in Hausa, squatting down a little when he came out of his room dressed in his usual Jallabiya. "Lafiya lau Meheruu," he teased knowing how she despised the name. "Mallam Audu!" she whined stomping her feet on the ground. "Muje kafin muyi latti (let's go before you get late) and we don't want that." he said laughing whilst shaking his head.

She said and he bursted out laughing. “My mother isn’t even disturbing me about marriage, what exactly is your issue!” “Jo fi mi le (please leave me alone)!” He said pronouncing the wordings in a very deep Canadian accent, pronouncing the Yoruba alphabet in the words like English Alphabets. She shook her head and scoffed at his very horrible attempt at speaking their dialect. “Two years Nimi, two years you’ve still not learnt a thing!” “At this rate Adina would speak Yoruba better than you!” She teased,

"Whispers are for the young. In this house, we only listen to the stones. But stones are expensive these days, daughter of the market. very expensive!" *Egba is the dialect of first settlers of Abeokuta

As a corpers posted to the far north, far away from my Ekiti state, it was not easy at all. I could not speak Hausa, the few words I learned in the camp, I use to buy things in the market. Words like: Ina kwana- Good morning. Na wan? - How much? It was quite difficult living in a new environment. The people though friendly find it difficult to communicate with me. They will say: Ba a Hausa meaning Cannot speak Hausa. Sometimes they will ask you: Akwai Hausa? meaning Can you speak Hausa? I will always reply Ba bu meaning No or Kadan

Tanna said. "She obviously doesn't." Anita said facepalming. "Okay then explain" I said. "This is Gorontula. It's an Hausa kayanmata. Come to think of it. It's perfect since you're marrying an Hausa man isn't it" Tiara explained. "What does it do then?" I asked. The all looked at each other in silence. I didn't understand what the looks were for. "You're kidding right?" Tiara said glaring softly at me.