Hausa serves as a trade and media language across West Africa. Hausa has a rich oral tradition of storytelling and poetry. It is written in both Arabic (Ajami) and Latin-based script. Hausa is ...

Her research and teaching focus on the description and documentation of West African languages in their cultural contexts, with a focus on Mande and Atlantic languages. From a language-focused outlook ...

A creole language forms when two different languages mix into a new language, like Haitian Creole which is a mixture of French and West African languages, and Jamaican Patois, a mix of English and ...