A traditional musical instrument, shantu, which is an important part of Hausa culture in Nigeria, has fallen into obscurity with the emergence of different musical instruments and genres.

A Adaobi Onyeakagbu Follow Many have drawn similarities between Hausa music and Indian music, rightfully so. However, can you identify the instruments used to deliver the high pitched melodies?

She spent 52 years of her life composing and singing the Amada genre of Hausa folk music, accompanied by a water-filled calabash instrument beaten lightly like a drum. Her all-female group usually ...

The Hausa skill in horse riding is also thought to come from Kanem-Borno. And finally there is music. The musicians of the court of the present Emir of Zazzau in Zaria say their instruments derive ...

Reforming such a society was to a certain extent easy, because the people could read and write, hence literary instruments were ... after all Hausa musical scene is ever thriving with new talents ...

He loaded on about 400 songs by Hausa music legends such as Mamman Shata ... These have a mixture of influences and are heavy on local instruments. “We have a lot of culture we are not taking ...