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Authored Books

Furniss, Graham, Buba, Malami and Burgess, William (2004) Bibliography of Hausa Popular Fiction 1987-2002. Koeln: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag. (Wortkunst und dokumentartexte in Afrikanischen sprachen, 21; Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen, Bd. 21.)

Furniss, Graham (2004) Orality: the Power of the Spoken Word. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampsphire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Furniss, Graham (1996) Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa. Edinburgh ; Washington ; Ibadan: Edinburgh University Press ; Smithsonian; Ibadan University Pres.

Furniss, Graham (1995) Ideology in Practice: Hausa Poetry as Exposition of Values and Viewpoints. Köln: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag.

Furniss, Graham (1991) Second Level Hausa: Grammar in Action. London: SOAS University of London.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Finnegan, Ruth, Furniss, Graham and Orwin, Martin, eds. (2011) Carried by a Mystic Wind: B. W. Andrzejewski on the Somali Passion for Poetry and Language. London: Taylor and Francis. (Special Issue of Journal of African Cultural Studies; Vol.23 no.1)

Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham, eds. (2000) African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition. Oxford: James Currey.

Duran, Lucy and Furniss, Graham, eds. (1999) Sunjata, Gambian versions of the Mande epic by Bamba Suso and Banna Kanuteh. London: Penguin.

Duran, Lucy and Furniss, Graham, eds. (1999) Sunjata: Gambian Versions of the Mande Epic. London: Penguin Classics.

Furniss, Graham and Gunner, Liz, eds. (1995) Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ; Johannesburg: Wits Press.

Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham, eds. (1994) African Languages, Development and the State. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Furniss, Graham (2011) 'Analysing imagery: comments from short-form verbal art in Hausa.' In: Lohr, Doris, Rothmaler, Eva and Ziegelmeyer, Georg, (eds.), Kanuri, Borno and Beyond: Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region. Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, pp. 65-76.

Furniss, Graham (2006) 'Innovation and Persistence: Literary Circles, New Opportunities, and Continuing Debates in Hausa Literary Production.' In: Barber, Karin, (ed.), Africa's Hidden Histories. Everyday Literacy and Making the Self. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 416-34.

Furniss, Graham (2005) 'Creativity and Rhetoric [and] Création et rhétorique.' In: Dauphin-Tinturier, A-M and Derive, J, (eds.), Oralité africaine et création : actes de colloque de l'Isola (10-12 juillet 2002). Paris: Karthala, 71-91, 663.

Furniss, Graham (2005) 'On the implications of orality.' In: Ricard, A and Veit-Wild, F, (eds.), Interfaces Between the Oral and the Written: Versions and Subversions in African Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 267-90.

Furniss, Graham (2005) 'Reflections on the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.' In: Derive, J and Baumgardt, U, (eds.), Paroles nomades: écrits d'ethnolinguistique africaine. Paris: Karthala, pp. 31-44.

Furniss, Graham (2004) 'George Percy Bargery.' In: H.C.G.Matthew, H. C. G., (ed.), New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 806-7.

Furniss, Graham (2004) 'Introduction to Hausa popular fiction.' In: Furniss, Graham, Buba, Malami and Burgess, William, (eds.), Bibliography of Hausa Popular Fiction 1987-2002. Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, pp. 1-19. (Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in Afrikanische Sprachen)

Furniss, Graham (2003) 'Akilu Aliyu [and] Abubakar Imam [and] Bello Kagara [and] Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.' In: Gikandi, Simon, (ed.), Encyclopedia of African Literature. London: Routledge, 18, 237, 254, 530.

Furniss, Graham (2003) 'Contemporary bards: Hausa verbal artists.' In: Peek, Philip M. and Yankah, Kwesi, (eds.), African Folklore: an Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, pp. 71-2.

Furniss, Graham (2002) 'Commentary upon Paul Newman's "Grades, vowel-tone classes and extensions in the Hausa verbal system".' In: Newman, Paul, Jaggar, Philip J. and Wolff, H. Ekkehard, (eds.), Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: Selected papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries. Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, pp. 65-6.

Furniss, Graham (2001) 'Language, truth and rhetoric in the constitution of orality.' In: Kaschula, R, (ed.), African Oral Literature: Functions in Contemporary Contexts. Cape Town: New Africa Books, pp. 191-203.

Furniss, Graham (2001) 'Meaning and performance: gradations in the expression of disapproval in Hausa.' In: Ibriszimow, Dymitr, Leger, Rudolf and Seibert, Uwe, (eds.), Von Aegypten Zum Tschadsee: Eine Linguistische Reise Durch Afrika. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, pp. 171-177.

Furniss, Graham (2000) 'African Literature: Introduction [and] West African Literature.' In: France, Peter, (ed.), The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 127-129, 132.

Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard (2000) 'African broadcast cultures.' In: Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard, (eds.), African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition. Oxford: James Currey, pp. 1-20.

Furniss, Graham (2000) 'Documenting Kano 'market' literature.' In: Barringer, T.A., (ed.), Africa Bibliography 1998. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 7-23.

Furniss, Graham (1997) 'Hausa literature.' In: Middleton, John, (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 8-9.

Furniss, Graham (1996) 'Ma'ama'are.' In: Sperl, Stefan and Shackle, Christopher, (eds.), Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa, Vol 2: Eulogy's Bounty, Meaning's Abundance. An Anthology. Leiden: Brill, pp. 372-87.

Furniss, Graham and Boyd, Jean (1996) 'Mobilise the people: the qasida in Fulfulde and Hausa as purposive literature.' In: Sperl, Stefan and Shackle, Christopher, (eds.), Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa, Vol. 1: Classical Traditions and Modern Meanings. Leiden: Brill, pp. 429-449.

Furniss, Graham (1995) 'The Hausa contractor: the image of an entrepreneur.' In: Ellis, S and Faure, Y, (eds.), Entreprises et entrepreneurs africains. Paris: Karthala, pp. 229-38.

Furniss, Graham and Gunner, Liz (1995) 'Power, marginality and oral literature.' In: Furniss, Graham and Gunner, Liz, (eds.), Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature. Cambridge ; Johannesburg: Cambridge University Press ; Wits Press, pp. 1-19.

Furniss, Graham (1995) 'The power of words and the relations between Hausa genres.' In: Furniss, Graham and Gunner, Liz, (eds.), Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature. Cambridge ; Johannesburg: Cambridge University Press ; Wits Press, pp. 130-44.

Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard (1994) 'Frontiers and boundaries - African languages as political environment.' In: Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham, (eds.), African Languages, Development and the State. London: Routledge, pp. 1-32.

Furniss, Graham (1993) 'Hausa poetry.' In: Preminger, Alex and Brogan, T. V. F., (eds.), The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, pp. 496-497.

Furniss, Graham (1991) 'Burlesque in Hausa: 'And my text for today is food' said Mr Matches.' In: Baxter, P.T.W. and Fardon, Richard, (eds.), Voice, Genre, Text: Anthropological Essays in Africa and Beyond. Manchester: John Rylands University Library of Manchester, pp. 37-62.

Furniss, Graham (1991) 'Hausa language studies: the present.' In: Rufai, Abba, (ed.), Nigerian Languages Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Kano: Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, pp. 19-25.

Furniss, Graham (1991) 'Standards in speech, spelling and style - the Hausa case.' In: Cyffer, Norbert, Schubert, K and Weier, H-I, (eds.), Language Standardization in Africa. Hamburg: Hamburg: Helmut Buske, pp. 97-110.

Journal Article

Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham (2021) 'The histories of an enlightened ruler: Malam Muhamman Bitemya Sambo, Garbosa II of Donga, Central Nigeria.' Vestiges: Traces of Record, 7 (2). pp. 28-61.

Furniss, Graham and Uba Adamu, Abdalla (2012) '"Go by appearances at your peril": the Raina Kama writers' association in Kano, Nigeria, carving out a place for the "popular" in the Hausa literary landscape.' Research in African Literatures, 43 (4). pp. 88-111.

Furniss, Graham (2011) 'On engendering liberal values in the Nigerian colonial state: the idea behind the Gaskiya Corporation.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 39 (1). pp. 69-93.

Furniss, Graham (2008) 'On the multiple dimensions of memory in the oral communicative moment.' Cahiers de litterature orale, 63/64. pp. 127-144.

Furniss, Graham (2007) 'The future of UK-Africa collaboration in Humanities and Social Science research.' African Research and Documentation, 102. pp. 3-12.

Furniss, Graham and Barber, Karin (2006) 'African-Language Writing.' Research in African Literatures, 37 (3). pp. 1-14.

Furniss, Graham (2005) 'Video and the Hausa Novella in Nigeria.' Social Identities, 11 (2). pp. 89-112.

Furniss, Graham (2005) 'Higher education in Africa: the Commission for Africa.' Review of African Political Economy, 32 (104/105). pp. 446-9.

Furniss, Graham (2005) 'Sulle implicazioni dell’oralità.' Afriche e Orienti, 4. pp. 10-17.

Furniss, Graham and Buba, Malami (1999) 'Youth culture, Bandiri, and the continuing legitimacy debate in Sokoto town.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 12 (1). pp. 27-46.

Furniss, Graham (1998) 'Hausa creative writing in the 1930s: an exploration in post colonial theory.' Research in African Literatures, 29 (1). pp. 87-102.

Furniss, Graham and Hunwick, John (1994) 'Mervyn Hiskett, 1920-1994.' Sudanic Africa, 5. pp. 1-6.

Furniss, Graham and Ahmad, Sa’idu Babura (1994) 'Pattern, interaction and the non-dialogic in performance by Hausa rap artists.' Oral Tradition, 9 (1). pp. 113-35.

Furniss, Graham (1992) 'Oral culture and the making of meaning.' African Affairs, 91 (363). pp. 271-6.

Furniss, Graham (1992) 'A note on Hausa literature and R C Abraham.' African Languages and Cultures, supp 1. pp. 43-50.

Furniss, Graham (1991) ''De la fantaisie a la realite dans la litterature haoussa en prose' suivi de 'Pourquoi etudier la poesie haoussa?'.' Travaux et Documents (CEAN - Bordeaux), 31. pp. 1-21.

Furniss, Graham (1991) 'Hausa poetry on the Nigerian civil war.' African Languages and Cultures, 4 (1). pp. 21-28.

Furniss, Graham and Jaggar, Philip J. (1991) 'Professor Jack Carnochan: a biographical note.' York Papers in Linguistics, 15. pp. 281-284.

Furniss, Graham (1991) 'An early twentieth-century Hausa song: 'Wakar kuyangin Sokoto'.' Harsunan Nijeriya, 16. pp. 47-60.

Furniss, Graham (1990) 'Fitila, une nouvelle revue radicale haoussa.' Politique Africaine, 37. pp. 102-7.

Translations

Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard, trans. (2021) History and Customs of the Chamba M. S. Garbosa II (Gara Donga). Vestiges: Traces of Record, 7 (2). ISCA University of Oxford: Vestiges: Traces of Record. pp. 62-159.