Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Hausa Studies. In: African and European Perspectives. Kano, Nigeria, 10-17 Febbraio 2008.

The 3rd International Conference on Hausa Studies with a theme “African
and Europeans Perspectives in Hausa Linguistics, Literature and Culture”
was organized by the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”,
Italy under the linkage of the agreement with the Department of Nigerian
Languages and Linguistics, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.
It was the third Conference after Warsaw (June 2006) and Kano
(February 2009), where it was stated that this kind of Conferences
should take place alternatively in Kano and in Europe with a periodical
rate. The editors stress their wish that this kind of Conference or,
using a term less sophisticated, Workshop, would be a sort of regular
meeting among European and African scholars dealing with Nigerian
languages with a special focus on Hausa. In our daily world linguists
dealing with some languages have their own network with their periodical
occasions of meetings (see: the VIII Afro-Asiatic Congress of
2008 in Naples, the Colloquium on the Chadic Languages of September
2011 in Paris, the Mega-Chad Conference scheduled for September
2012 always in Naples, etc.), so some scholars thought to extent
the Hausa network, created in the eighties in the framework of the European
Community Erasmus Program among most of the European
universities where Hausa and Sudanic languages were taught, to Hausaland
for a real linkage in the field of teaching and promoting these
studies. These meetings should give also the opportunity to young
scholars/students to show their researches and to publish in an international
context evident to the Hausa community of researchers. In this
respect it seems that this 3rd meeting was quite successful considering
the great numbers of papers and the age of some contributors.
It was agreed at the Naples meeting that the 4th conference on African
and European Perspectives in Hausa Linguistics, Literature and
Culture will take place at Bayero University Kano in 2012.
25th May 2011