Hausa Folk-lore is a book by Maalam Shaihua, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray, published in 1913. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common It contains twenty-one folk-stories of the Hausa people of Africa. History The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of Romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African regions of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. The book is notable in that it was actually written by one of the Hausa, not a European, as is common in such books from the time period. The European peoples are the various Nations and Ethnic groups of Europe.