Being able to effectively communicate in another language opens up new horizons in life besides broadening one’s own world view. Living in a multi-cultural society as found in Kaduna, the College students readily appreciate the importance of being able to communicate well in another person’s language both in terms of economic advancement and in potentially lessening cultural misunderstandings. Clearly studying Hausa or Yoruba will go some way to meeting these needs of our young people.
With several Francophone countries near Nigeria, the College students are also keen to learn more about their international neighbours and enjoy the prospect of good communication should travel opportunities open up later on.
Hausa language is one of the three major languages spoken in Nigeria. The school teaches the language not only as a subject but as a means of lessening cultural misundestanding in a multi- lingual society. The Hausa language is the largest and best-known member of the Chadic subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages. Hausa has borrowed freely from other languages, especially Arabic, and is adapting well to the demands of contemporary cultural change. It has become a common language for millions of non-Hausa West Africans, and sizeable Hausa-speaking communities exist in each major city of West and North Africa as well as along the trans-Saharan trade and pilgrimage routes.
Hauses are of an African people of north-western Nigeria and south-western Niger. The Hausa are an ethnically diverse but culturally fairly homogeneous people numbering about 10 million to 15 million individuals.
