Music
Dan Maraya Jos: the Hausa kuntigi master who sang for ordinary people
Dan Maraya Jos, born Adamu Wayya in Jos, played the kuntigi, a small one-string lute, and sang about…
Hausa music
Music
Mamman Shata: the Hausa singer whose praise songs and kalangu drums filled northern Nigeria
Alhaji Mamman Shata of Katsina was the most celebrated Hausa singer of the twentieth century. Accompanied by kalangu…