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Aisha Umar Adamu

Humanities · Northwest University Kano

https://researchid.co/aisha.umar
@nwu.edu.ng
11Google Scholar Citations
2Google Scholar h-index

Research Interests

Nonverbal Communication

Biography

Dr. Aisha Umar Adamu is a linguist specializing in nonverbal communication and sociolinguistics at Northwest University, Kano. She is the author of Nonverbal Communication in Hausa Society: An Introduction, the first book of its kind. Her research examines how gestures, facial expressions, and embodied practices reflect the cultural values of kunya (modesty) and girmamawa (respect) in gendered interaction and Hausa society. Her current work explores gesture transformation and change; particularly how evolving nonverbal practices embody cultural continuity and adaptation in Hausa communication.

Education

PhD Linguistics

Recent Google Scholar Publications

  1. Nonverbal Regulators as Gender Signals in Hausa
    IDeas: UniUyo Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 1 (3), 63-74 , 2025, 2025.0
  2. NEITHER HERE NOR THERE: HAUSA PERCEPTION OF'YAN DAUDU'IN LIGHT OF AKILU ALIYU'S POEM AND HAUSA PROVERBS
    African Languages, Literatures, and Postcolonial Modernity, 53-70 , 2024, 2024.0
  3. Nazarin Harᵭantawa a wasu Shirye-Shiryen Kafafen Yaᵭa Labaran Gidan Rediyo na Jihar Katsina
    Rumfa Journal of the School of Continuing Education 3 (no 1), 240-250 , 2024, 2024.0
  4. Communicative Function of Nonverbal Cues in Hausa Prose Fiction
    Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 2 (2), 39-44 , 2023, 2023.0
  5. Masking emotions: a study of Hausa women’s expression of kunya
    OSF , 2021, 2021.0 | Citations: 2.0

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