This is the AUDIO ONLY recordings of Waƙoƙin Imfiraji [Songs of Salvation] by the famous blind poet from Zaria, northern Nigeria, Alhaji Aliyu Namangi [b.1914, d. 14th April 1994]. It was recited by Fauziyya Sarki Abubakar in Kano, northern Nigeria, on 25th September, 2010 at Golden Goose Studios. The recording engineer was Yakubu Adamu Abdullahi, aka ‘Yakson’.
From oral information available via his grandson Alhaji Shitu Namangi on 15th August 2014, Alhaji Aliyu Namangi died on 14th April, 1994. Although the grandson suggested in a phone discussion with me on 15th August 2014 that Alhaji Namangi died at the ‘age of 101’ (meaning he was probably born in 1893), Alhaji Aliyu Namangi himself in 1986 during an interview with me said he was born seven years after the death of the Emir of Zazzau Aliyu Dan Sidi (1903-21) which would make Alhaji Aliyu Namangi’s birth year to be 1914, making him 80 when he died in 1994.
The songs were transcribed and divided into nine volumes, and published by the Northern Nigerian Publishing Company (NNPC), Zaria, from 1962). At the end of the first printed volume, a Hijri date of 1359 was given as the date of initial composition. This corresponds to 1940. The songs were popularized in the Hausa public space by blind mendicants who recite it as they move from hut to hut begging for alms in predominantly Kano, Zaria and Katsina. Eventually through the efforts of Hausaist scholars such as Neil Skinner, it was transcribed, printed and published - although the precise details of such process is rather hazy.
Hausa Poetics Admin
Kano, Nigeria, August 2014
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