This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa

This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa. At the time of publication there were perhaps as many as 15 million Hausa-speaking people in the area, most of whom lived in the countryside in northern Nigeria and the neighbouring Niger Republic. This book is at once an examination of the socio-economic life of a small Hausa village and a study of the way of life of the rural Hausa generally. The book as a whole provides a wide-ranging survey both of what was known and of what was, and in some cases still is, little understood.

Polly Hill (born Mary Eglantyne Hill) (14 June 1914 – 21 August 2005) was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge

Polly Hill (born Mary Eglantyne Hill) (14 June 1914 – 21 August 2005) was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Hill came from a family of distinguished academics – her father, . Hill, had earned a Nobel prize in physiology.

This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa.

Chicago Distribution Center. Sutti Ortiz, "Obstacle to Agricultural Growth in Hausaland Viewed through a Village Study," Economic Development and Cultural Change 23, no. 1 (Oc. 1974): 163-168.

Rural Hausa: a village and a setting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Study with special reference to the village of Batagarawa).

She examined economic aid to developing nations, arguing that aid often went to programmes designed to fit the donor's interests. In her latter years she wrote two books about her family and people of the Fens. She died in her daughter's home in Isleham, Cambridgeshire after suffering for 3 years with senile dementia. Rural Hausa: a village and a setting. The occupations of migrants in Ghana.

Volume 44, Issue 2. April 1974, pp. 201-203. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

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This book is at once an examination of the socio-economic life of a small Hausa village and a study of the way of. .

This book is at once an examination of the socio-economic life of a small Hausa village and a study of the way of life of the rural Hausa generally. The themes which emerge from this study are similar to many which Polly Hill has stressed elsewhere: people who do not fit into crude stereotypes and socio-economic life are always much more varied and sophisticated than superficial observers would suppose. Cambridge University Press. Plantation and Village in the Cameroons: Some Economic and Social Studies. Polly Hill, Edwin Ardener, Shirley G. Ardener, W. A. Warmington, Malcolm J. Ruel.