List of Selected Publications

List of publications with links to the publishers

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1.Asabe KABIR Usman. “Motherhood in Africa; a Study of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood”. JALAL: Journal of Languages and Literatures. Vol. 1 Nos. 2. (Hunturu Issue). Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. December 1998. Pages 96-105. Print. 2. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Relevance of Folk Narratives in Modern Society.” Hausa Studies. Vol. 1 No. 1. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. January 1999. Pages 96-103. Print. 3. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Women in Hausa Folktales” Hausa Studies. Vol ii Nos.2. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. January 2000. Pages 57-62. Print. 4. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Rebellion against Domination: A Reading of Zulu Sofola’s The Sweet Trap.” JALAL: Journal of Languages and Literatures. Vol ii. No. 1. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. August 2000. Pages 125-132. Print. 5. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Narrative Techniques and Stylistic Devices in Story Telling Session among the Hausa People of Northern Nigeria.” JALAL: Journal of Languages and Literatures. Vol. 2, No. 1&2. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. May/June 2002. Pages 99-105. Print. 6. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Messages Conveyed Through Traditional Hausa Female Wedding Folksongs.” JALAL: Journal of Languages and Literatures. Vol. iii. No. 1. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. March/April 2004. Pages 113-117. Print. 7. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Co-Wife in Hausa Proverbs” Dundaye: Journal of Hausa Studies. Vol. 1, No. 2. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. December 2005 Pages 118-127. Print. 8. Asabe KABIR Usman. “My Song Is My Weapon: Hausa Satirical Songs As Weapon For Social Control.” FAIS: (Journal of Humanities) vol. 3. No 4. Bayero University, Kano. May 2006. Pages 154-165. Print. 9. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Preserving and Promoting Hausa Oral Folklore: The Role of Traditional Hausa Women”. JALAL: Journal of Languages and Literatures. Vol.4, No.1. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. December 2006. Pages 203-212. Print. 10. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Analysis of the State of Popular Culture in Hausa Society: Oral Narratives as Case Study” Journal of Arts and Education. (A publication of the Faculty of Education and Arts), Vol 1. No. 1. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai.. September 2007. Pages 198-206. Print. 11. Asabe KABIR Usman. “A Critical Analysis of Some Selected Theories of Folklore. Taguwa”. In The Journal of Humanities. Faculty of Humanities Katsina State University. Vol. 1 No. 1. December 2008. Pages 83-93. Print. 12. Asabe KABIR Usman. “My Song is My Art: Hyperbole as Communicative Tool in Selected Hausa Praise Songs in New Quest a Quarterly Journal of Participatory Inquiry. Issue No.175-176. January- June 2009. Print. 13. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Men in the Eyes of Women: an Annotation of Selected Hausa Proverbs about Men”. In DEGEL: Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto: VOL IX. June- July 2010. Pages. 68-75. ISSN 0794-9316. Print. 14. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Revisiting the Social Roles of Proverbs in Hausa Society”. In Lapai Journal of Humanities. Volume 3. Numbers 1&2. (Journal of the Department of History and Archaeology). Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State. 2009. ISSN- 2006 -2826. Pages 206-213. Print. 15. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Globalisation and the Redefining Depiction of the African Woman in Fictional Writings: An Overview of Abubakar Gimba’s Sacred Apples”.UNIMAID Journal of Women Studies. (UMAJOWS). Vol.3, 2010. Pages 74-78. ISSN-2006 -6104. Print. 16. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Representation of a Popular Hausa Oral Narrative through New Media: The Adaptation and Recreation of Ruwan Bagaja into Movie”. In Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria (Issue 4). June 2012. Pages. 54-61. ISSN: 2251-0095. Print. 17. Asabe KABIR Usman. & Mrs Aisha Umar Mohammad. “Women in Hausa Home Movies: Lessons from Kirji Biki (Master of Ceremony)”. In MAJAC (Makurdi Journal of Arts and Culture). Volume 10, No. 1. (Special Edition). August 2012. Pages 25-36. ISSN: 1117-3440. Print. 18. Asabe KABIR Usman. The “Nigerian Literary Writer and the Socio-Cultural Challenges of the 21st Century”. In Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria (JLSN). Issue 5, Benin: Regal. June 2013. Pages 25-46. ISSN: 225-100-95. Print. 19. Asabe KABIR Usman. “An Appraisal of Wellerisms within Hausa Proverbs”. In Studies in Humanities, Vol 7, Ibadan: Foludex Press Limited. July-December 2013. Pages 55-68. ISSN: 0794-5639. Print. 20. Asabe KABIR Usman. & Mrs Aisha Umar Mohammad. New Media, Old Artistry: The Projection of a Hausa Oral Folkloric Tradition in the Movie, Hausa Bakwai. In Nigerian Journal of Oral Literatures (Number One). Ibadan: Kraft Books. August 2013. ISSN 1595-1715. Pages. 145-160. Print. 21. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Analysis of the Storyline behind Selected Hausa Proverbs”. In Sociology Study. Volume 4, Number 8, (Serial Number 39). New York: David Publishing Company. August 2014. Pages. 673-680. ISSN 2159‐5526 (Print). ISSN 2159-5534 (Online). 22. Asabe KABIR Usman. “An Annotation of Selected Hausa Parallel Proverbs”. In Journal of Modern Education Review (Volume 4. Number 11). New York: Academic Star. November 2014. Pages. 892-899. ISSN. 2155-7993. Print. 23. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Binary Image of Woman in Selected Hausa Proverbs”. In Journal of Nigerian Folklore. Kano: Center for the Study of Nigerian Languages and Folklore. Bayero University. 2017. Pages. 155-167. ISSN 0759575. Print. 24. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Politics of Attack through Gendered Hausa Proverbs”. In Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences. India, Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers. Sept-Oct 2018. Pages. 110 -117. ISSN 2394-451X. Print. 25. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Revisiting the Female Question in Hausa Women’s Writings: Examples from the Fictional Work of Balkisu Salisu Ahmad”. In DEGEL, A Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. Volume 16, December 2018. Pages, 97-106. ISSN 0794-9316. Print. 26. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Oral Literary Genres as Tool for the Socialization of Children: The Role of Women”. In Nigerian Journal of Oral Literature. Number 6. Ile Ife: Nigerian Oral Literature Association. 2019. Pages 84-99. ISSN 1595 1715 Print. 27. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Humour in Selected Hausa Proverbs”. In Liwuram, Journal of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Maiduguri. Volume 21, No. 1, 2020; Pages 1-11. ISSSN 0018-9839. Print. 28. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Hausa Women Folksongs: Tool for Cultural Preservation”. In Kebbi Journal of Languages and Literature (KJLL): A Journal of the Department of European Languages, Federal University, Birnin Kebbi. Volume 1, No. 1, May, 2020. Pages 1-9. ISSN 2735-9069. Print. Chapters in Books 1. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Globalisation and the Redefining Depiction of the African Woman in Fictional Writings: An Overview of Abubakar Gimba’s Sacred Apples”. In A Rainbow Beyond its Colours. (Essays in Honour of Professor Shamsudeen O.O. Amali ). Volume ll. September 2008. Pages 79-83. Print. 2. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The New Media Technology and the Sustenance and Propagation of Hausa Proverbs: The Use of Proverbs in Adawarmu”. In Languages, Literature and Culture in the Current Technological World. Porto Novo, Republic of Benin. Sonou Press. 2009. Pages 64-72. Print. 3. Muhammad Tahir Mallam & Asabe KABIR Usman. Breaking the Limits of Readership: The Impediments before the Northern Nigerian Writers”. In Ismaila etal (ed) Towards Sustaining Creative Writing in Northern Nigeria. Krafts Books. October 2009. Pages 87-94. ISBN 978-49392-3-2. Print. 4. Asabe KABIR Usman & Muhammad Tahir Mallam. “Pidgin as Language of Poetic Composition: An Analysis of Selected Pidgin Poems of Mamman J. Vatsa”. In Abdu, S. & Bhadmus O. M. (ed). Poetry and Poetics: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Literature on Northern Nigeria. Kano. Maigishiri Gabasawa Press.2008 pp. 35-43. Print. 5. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Mother Figure in Hausa Proverbs”. In Amali, Joshua & Bashir (Editors). New Studies on Language, Literature and Society: A Festchrift in Honour of Professor Aliyu Mohammed at Sixty-Five. 2010, ISBN: 978-125-930-2. Print. 6. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Language as tool for preserving Hausa Social values through Hausa Popular Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Balkisu, Ahmad’s Mata Rahama Ne and Saliha Abubakar’s Yarda da Kaddara”. In US-China Foreign Language. Volume 8, Number 10. Libertyville, Illinois, USA: David Publishing Company, 2010. Pages.78-88. ISSN1539 -8080. Print. 7. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Stereotypical Depiction of the Mother-In-Law in Hausa Society: An Appraisal of Tela’s Zama Da Surukai (Living Amidst In-Laws)”. In Ahmed Yerima & Saeedat Aliyu (Eds). Gender Politics: Women’s Writings and Film in Northern Nigeria. November 2012. Pages. 238-251. ISBN978-978-918-074-5. Print. 8. Asabe KABIR Usman & Mrs. Aisha Umar Muhammad. “Reality or Myth? The Depiction of Women Characters in Kukan Zaki (The Roar of the Lion)”. In Ahmed Yerima & Saeedat Aliyu (Eds). Gender Politics: Women’s Writings and Film in Northern Nigeria. November 2012. Pages. 102-112. ISBN978-978-918-074-5. Print. 9. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Stereotypical Depiction of Women as Co-Wives in Hausa in the Movie Sansani”. In Sunday Enessi Ododo (Ed). Fireworks for a Lighting Aesthetician: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Duro Oni @ 60. December. 2012. Pages. 495-507. ISBN 978 -978-51156-5-9. Print. 10. Asabe KABIR Usman. Positive Radicalism and the Representation of Assertive Womanism in Zaynab Alkali’s Descendants. In Doki & Ayakoroma (Eds). Difficult Dialogues in Development: A Festschrift: Charity Ashimem Angya. Ibadan: Krafts Books. 2012. Pages. 243-253 ISBN 978-91808-5-1. Print. 11. Asabe KABIR Usman & Mrs. Halima Idris Amali. “Tearing the Veil of Invisibility: Balkisu Ahmad and the Feminist Instinct in Sa’adatu Sa’ar Mata”. In Ndimele O. M, Ahmad M. Yakasai H. M. (Eds). Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society: A Festschrift for Abubakar Rasheed. (Festschrift Series No. 10). Port Harcourt: The Linguistic Association of Nigeria. 2013. Pages 487-500 ISBN 978-33527-09-1. Print. 12. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Concept of Truth as demonstrated in Hausa Proverbs”. In Muhammad Munkaila & Balarabe Zulyadaini (Eds) Language, Literature and Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Abdulhamid Abubakar. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press. 2012. Pages. 526-530. ISBN 978-283-852-7. Print. 13. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Mother Figure in Hausa Proverbs. In Idris O. O. Amali, Adebayo A. Joshua & Amina Bashir (Eds). New Studies on Language, Literature and Society: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Aliyu Mohammed at Sixty-Five. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Printing Press. 2010. Pages. 621-628. ISBN: 978-125-930-2. Print. 14. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Humour as Style in Abubakar Imam’s Ruwan Bagaja”. In Bunza etal (Ed). Humanities in Sub-saharan World. Uni Cairo/UMYUK Special Research In Humanities. Ruwan Bagaja in Perspective: eight Decades of Hausa Masterpiece in Prose (1933-2013). Cairo: Institute of African Research and Humanities Studies, Department of African Languages Cairo University Egypt. 2013. Pages. 11-26. ISBN 9781254815. Print. 15. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Umbilical Cord that refuses to be severed: Evaluating the Socio -Cultural Functions of Folklore in 21st Century Nigeria”. In Rasheed Abubakar & Aliyu Sani Abba (Eds). Folklore, Integration and National Development: Festschrift for Professor Dandatti Abdulkadeer OFR. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press Limited. 2013. ISBN 978-125-687-4. Chapter 7. Pages. 120-131. Print. 16. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Symbol of Entertainment and Education: Appraising the Binary Functions of Gizo, the Trickster in Selected Hausa Folktales”. In Rasheed Abubakar & Aliyu Sani Abba (Eds). The Folktale in Nigeria. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-125-687-6. Chapter 27. Pages. 267-288. Print. 17. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Women Against Women: Stereotypical Depiction of Co-Wives in Dakin Amarya”. In Mohammed O. Bhadmus (Ed)). The Nigerian Cinema: Reading Nigerian Motion Pictures. Ibadan: Spectrum Books. 2016. Chapter 2. Pages. 21-40. ISBN 978-978-926-417-9. Print. 18. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Quest for Female Identity in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow”. In Tanure Ojaide, Irene Salami Ogunloye and Dike Okoro (Eds)). The Niger Delta Literary Review. Wisconsin USA: Cissus World Press. 2017. Pages. 293 -321. ISBN 978-0997-868951. Print. 19. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Archiving Hausa Popular Entertainment through New Media Technology: An Assessment of Recreation of Ruwan Bagaja into Movie”. In James Tar Tsaaior & Francoise Ugochukwu (Eds). Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation: Nollywood and National Narration. London: Adonis & Abby Publishers Limited. 2017. Pages. 123-134. ISBN 978-1-909112-74-2. Print. 20. Asabe KABIR Usman. The Literary Artist, the Arts and Nation -Building. In Festus A. Adesanoye (Ed.) Patriotism: An Occasional publication of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL). Number 16. Ibadan: Green Minds Media. 2018. Pages. 37- 87. ISBN 978 -978-946-487-0. Print. 21. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Antipathy or Insanity: Polygamy and the Depiction of Hausa Women in Da Kishiyar Gida Gara ta Waje”. In Muhammad, B. O. (Ed). Gender and Sexuality in Nigerian Motion Pictures. Hallmark Publishing Company, Kano. 2019. Chapter 4. Pages 45 -57. ISBN 978-978-8203-67-4. Print. 22. Asabe KABIR Usman. Revitalizing Oral Literature, Culture, and Indigenous Languages for National Cohesion and Integration in 21st Century Nigeria. In Adeniyi, Ibileye and Abdulmalik (Eds). Issues in Minority Languages and Language Development Studies in Nigeria. Festschrift in Honour of Andrew Haruna. Lagos: Free Enterprise publishers. 2020. Pages 73-86. Print. 23. Asabe KABIR Usman and Aisha Umar Muhammad. “African Feminist Perspective, Yesterday and Today: A Study of Efuru and Sa’adatu Sa’ar Mata (Chapter 13). In Yusuf Adamu, M. (Ed). Hausa Prose Fiction: A Reader. Kano: Bayero University Press. 2021. Pages 206-216. ISBN 978-978-56452-4-8. Print. 24. Asabe KABIR Usman. “We Must be Heard: A Fragmentary Appraisal of Selected Female Hausa Novelists” (Chapter 15). In Yusuf Adamu, M. (Ed). Hausa Prose Fiction: A Reader. Kano: Bayero University Press. 2021. Pages 231-247. ISBN 978-978-56452-4-8. Print. 25. Asabe KABIR Usman. Passivity and Agency: The Dilemma of Female Characters in the Works of Zulu Sofola, Buchi Emecheta, and Tess Onwueme. In The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 2021. Pages 265-276. ISBN 978-0-367-68289-7. Print. 26. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Reminiscing the Past, Tackling the Present and Negotiating the Future through the Oral Narrative Daskin-da-ridi.” In Literature and Popular Culture: Quest for Human Development. A Book in Honour of Professor Abubakar Aliyu Liman at 60. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press. 2022. Pages 40-53. ISBN 978-978-56701-0-3. Print. 27. Asabe KABIR Usman. Life Writings in Africa (Chapter 8). In David Ker, Olu Obafemi and Tanimu Abubakar (Eds). Literature in English for Tertiary Education in Nigeria. TETFund-Supported Publication, Lagos: Academic Publishing Center. 2022. Pages, 289-312. ISBN: 978-978-59718-6-6. Print. 28. Asabe KABIR Usman. Rethinking Poverty as the Face of a Woman. (Chapter 18). In Agunloye, Irene Isoken and Kolawole Mary Modupe (Eds). Women and Gender in Nigeria: A Reader TETFund-Supported Publication. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto: Academic Publishing Centre Northwest Zone. 2022, Pages 499-518ISBN 978-978-59773-4-9. Print. 29. Asabe KABIR Usman. Enigmatic Touch Humorous Acts: The Fulani Simpleton as Humorous Character in Hausa Joke Narratives (Chapter Fourteen). In Omeora O. Osakue, Bode Ojoniyi, Victor O. Ihidero (Eds). One Tree A Forest: Studies in Nigerian Theatre Poetics, Technology and Cultural Aesthetics (A Book in honour of Sunday Enessi Ododo (SEO) @ 60. Lagos: National Theatre Iganmu. 2023, Pages, 185-196. ISBN 978-978-795-341--9. Print. 30. Asabe KABIR Usman. Symbol of Entertainment and Education: Appraising the Binary Functions of Gizo, the Trickster in Selected Hausa Folktales. (Chapter Thirty-Nine). In Omeora O. Osakue, Bode Ojoniyi, Victor O. Ihidero (Eds). One Tree A Forest: Studies in Nigerian Theatre Poetics, Technology and Cultural Aesthetics (A Book in honour of Sunday Enessi Ododo (SEO) @ 60. Lagos: National Theatre Iganmu. 2023, Pages, 185-196. ISBN 978-978-795-341—9. Print. 31. Asabe KABIR Usman. “We Must be Heard”: Reminiscences of Womanhood in Rahama A. Majid’s Mace Mutum. In Oluwakemi, Abiodun Adesina, Aisha Balarabe Bawa & Mutiat Titilope Oladejo (Eds.) The Odyssey of the Nigerian Woman. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2024, Pages, 474-484. ISBN (10):1-5275-5461-9 ISBN (13): 978-5275-5461-0. Print.
Conference Proceedings

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1.Asabe KABIR Usman. “Gender in the Novels of Abubakar Gimba: A Critical Analysis of the Representation of the Contemporary Muslim Woman in Sacred Apples.” Writings, Performance and Literature in Northern Nigeria. (Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Literature in Northern Nigeria) Department of English & French, Bayero University Kano. 2006. Pp 154-165. Print. 2. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Unveiling the Faces behind the Mask: Women Active Participation in Contemporary Hausa Movies”. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Literature in Northern Nigeria. Kano: Department of English & French, Bayero University, Kano, 2007. Pages 145-159. Print. 3. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Language as tool for preserving Hausa Social values through Hausa Popular Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Balkisu, Ahmad’s Mata Rahama Ne and Saliha Abubakar’s Yarda da Kaddara”. In ObafConfab Book of Proceedings of the International Conference on African Literature and Theatre, at University of Ilorin Auditorium, Main Campus, Ilorin Nigeria 1st-4th April 2010. Pages.71-85. ISBN978-30655 -6-4. Print. 4. Asabe KABIR Usman. “A Historical Overview of the Development of Education in Nigeria Since Independence: Issues and Prospects”. In Farfaru Journal of Mult -Disciplinary Studies. (Special Conference Edition). Sokoto: Shehu Shagari College of Education. 2010. Pages .xvii- xxx. ISSN0795-4597. Print. 5. Asabe KABIR Usman. “Nation Building Through Sacrifice: Reflections from Gimba’s Trail of Sacrifice”. In Vicky Sylvester (Ed.) Gimba Confab Book of Proceedings: University of Abuja International Conference on Language and Literature. November 2012. Pages. 162 -177. ISBN 9783704597. Print. 6. Asabe KABIR Usman. “The Quest for Female Identity in Balkisu Ahmad’s Sa’adatu Sa’ar Mata (Sa’adatu the Glowing Star)”. In Vicky Sylvester (Ed.) Gimba Confab Book of Proceedings: University of Abuja International Conference on Language and Literature. November 2012. Pages. 210 -220. ISBN 9783704597. Print.