Digital Electronic Devices, Growing Dominance of Writing and the Preservation of Language and Culture in Hausa Society By

Abstract

These activities are given primary attention at various levels of certification or assertion in Universities, Research Centres, and Projects by other agencies in Britain, America, Germany, Poland, Japan, China, Libya, Ghana, and so on. In Nigeria and Niger Republic, Hausa studies and research are conducted in Universities, Departments of Linguistics, and Centres for African Languages. It is also studied in most of the colleges of Education in Nigeria and taught at both primary and secondary school levels. It is one of the major languages that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 (CFRN, 1999) envisaged that it would be used for national parliamentary deliberations. Hausa is used for radio broadcasts by the BBC, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, Radio France International, Voice of Russia, China Radio International (Beijing), and Iran radio and television broadcasts. It is also used for radio and television broadcasts in the Republics of Niger and Nigeria. It is also used as a medium for writing textbooks, literary materials, and newspapers. It is the language of a flourishing Hausa movie/home video industry in West Africa.