BIJIREWA A WAKOKIN SIYASA: BINCIKE KAN WAKOKIN 1903-2015

BIJIREWA A WAKOKIN SIYASA: BINCIKE KAN WAKOKIN 1903-2015

Abstract:

Poetry, whether oral or written, is a way of disseminating message in a particular way that educates and at times elicits pleasure. For long, Hausa poems are used in propagating political messages be it voters registration or campaigns or the conduct of election itself. The study of resistance in Hausa political poetry has received little attention. By the tradition of Hausa poetic studies, critics normally study theme, style and plot of literary works. Literary analysis on resistance in Hausa political poetry is to some extent a new a phenomenon in Hausa literature. Based on this, some poems written due to the emergence of colonialism and the ones during the first, second, third and fourth republics were studied, in order to understand how people showed their resistance towards leaders and some policies. At the end, it was understood that, in all the history of political dispensation since the time of colonialism to the present political regime, there have been some elements of resistance in most of the Hausa political poems. The work is devided into five chapters. Chapter one consists of general introduction, where the significance of the research, aim and objectives hypothesis and scope and delimitations were discussed. Chapter two constitute literature review which treated works related to the research whether positively or otherwise. While chapter three dealt with resistance poems during colonialism and the one before the advent of full democracy, chapter four is devoted to the analysis of resistance poems in Hausaland after the advent of full democracy as reflected in the poems studied. Chapter five, which is the concluding chapter, discussed the summary of the whole work, and research findings viz, till date there are political poems with some element of resistance, and to this time the 21st century there are resistance poems and most of the poems studied potray political theme with elements of resistance socially, economically and otherwise.

BIJIREWA A WAKOKIN SIYASA: BINCIKE KAN WAKOKIN 1903-2015