BBC News Hausa

One of the BBC's largest African services — daily Hausa news, text and audio.

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What it actually is

BBC Hausa has an enormous audience across northern Nigeria and Niger, and publishes constantly in Boko, the Latin orthography. Plain register and a lot of radio-style audio, which is the right combination for a language where written material is scarcer than spoken.

What it covers

  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Immersion

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