Note 51 — Chapter VIII · THE HAUSAS AND THEIR EMPORIUM—(cont.)

Apart from the question whether the Hausas can claim to have “attempted the production of a literature” any more than the Fulani or Kanuri, there remains the fact—which goes to confute Canon Robinson’s somewhat sweeping generalisation—that the language of the Tuareg—the Tamashek—has been reduced to literature in Tamashek characters, and that both sexes among the Tuareg are regularly instructed therein.