Frank Edgar

Frank Edgar was at the beginning of the twentieth century a British colonial administrator in northern Nigeria, then a protectorate, in the heart of Hausa country. An official examiner in the Hausa language, author of a grammar and dictionaries of another language of the country, he above all gathered in Sokoto province, at the request of the resident, a vast corpus of Hausa and Arabic texts written in Arabic script, which he transliterated into Latin script and had published. He was also an officer in a Scottish regiment. He died in 1937.

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• TaleHausa Tales and TraditionsLitafi na tatsuniyoyi na HausaFrank Edgar · 1911Literature