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Structural and Ideological Tensions in a Rural Hausa Village

In this article an attempt is made to achieve three separate but complementary tasks. First, to make a contribution to the ethnography of the Hausa of northern Nigeria. Although considerable attention has been paid to the historical development of the centralized emirate systems which provide the overarching framework for the organization of Hausa society (see for example Smith: 1960), comparatively little attention has been paid to the lower levels of Hausa political organization especially in the areas where 90 percent of the Hausa live. A notable exception to this neglect of the Hausa is th…