Here is Prof. Russell Schuh from UCLA talking about the production of video clips used for Hausa teaching. Let’s hope that one day, these clips will be found on YouTube, too!

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Ya Fi Mafarkai - Labarin Mohammed - Part 5/5 Final
(Hausa language with English subtitles)

Ya Fi Mafarkai - Labarin Mohammed - Part 4/5
(Hausa language with English subtitles)

Ya Fi Mafarkai - Labarin Mohammed - Part 3/5
(Hausa language with English subtitles)

Ya Fi Mafarkai - Labarin Mohammed - Part 2/5
(Hausa language with English subtitles)

Ya Fi Mafarkai - Labarin Mohammed - Part 1/5
(Hausa language with English subtitles)

“Literacy is the best remedy” is the theme of this year’s International Literacy Day, which is celebrated annually on 8 September. On the occasion of International Literacy Day 2008, UNESCO’s Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura states:
“Today’s gravest health concerns cannot be adequately addressed unless literacy finds a central place in public health policies and strategies. An illiterate person is simply more vulnerable to ill health and less likely to seek medical help for themselves, their

On the internet, especially at YouTube, one can find more and more Hausa video clips. It is mostly music taken from movies, but some other things as well. Here is a video which can help you learn Hausa names for domestic animals:

You can find more Hausa videos in my Hausa video collection.

CNN's Christian Purefoy reports on the sometimes deadly Nigerian sport of Dambe, or one-handed boxing.

Hausa song