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In Hausa


Karuwanci - prostitution (Karuwa, the prostitute)
Madigo - Lesbianism
Luwadi - homoxuality (gay) - from (Lot in d bible and qur'an)
dadiro - mistress

However, I think some of these words are borrowed arabic words

Prostitution existed in precolonial era. I read some hausa books on stories and personal diaries written more than 100 years before colinial masters that talk about prostitution. Infact in one of the stories, the writer was part of the calvalry send to invade neighboring communities to capture slaves and women for prostitution. The master normally keeps the woman in his house and ppl pay, or do certain services and then get to do the thing with the slave. There are non women that does that over the history.

Those where the good old days. You do the thing and no disease. Now with all d chemicals, makes up, bathing and shaving; disease de.

God have mercy on us

jamace:
Is it only on newspapers that these crooks are glorified? Watch when any of them enters a church or mosque. The pastor or Imam would halt his preaching and attend to them first. Or let any of these thieves have any ceremony in the church or mosque, all the elders, imams,pastors, reverends, chief imams, bishops, general overseers etc, must congregate to honour the ceremony. This is to prove that even our spiritual fabric has been devoured by corruption. What do you expect when[b] Illegal wealth is termed prosperity [/b] and is honoured, while [b]honesty has become a sin[/b ].

Is this what u are talkin about?

well. Hausa is my second language and I found it hard to learn. Im still finding it very difficult to speak Hausa without the stupid Hausawa laughing at me. I hate them for that. Not only me most of my relatives and ppl from my village find it very difficult to learn. But we have no option than learning. I started learning Hausa from around 11 - 12 or so and can vitually understand everything. I tried to learn other languages like Yoruba and Ibo, but I think Ibo is more difficult to learn. Learning ibo is like learning chinese, all the chus and kwus in d language make it difficult.

If u are trying to learn a Nigerian language, I will advise u to learn hausa. because if u can speak in english, you wont get lost in the south, but in d north u need an interpreter in some cases. The northern ppl, even the educated ones dont like speaking english language. And more over sometime the language is sweet. Listen to these programmes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/hausa/meta/tx/hausa_0530?size=au&bgc=003399&lang=ha&nbram=1&nbwm=1

and

http://www.voanews.com/hausa/webcasts.cfm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hausa/

These are BBC and VOA hausa programmes, click the play sign and it will give u the idea of how the language is spoken. It is soft spoken language, with plenty of words, almost word for everything. The language specializes in borrowing from other languages. Infact it is more interesting when they are mixing it with english.

see these ppl fa.

when US is dining and drinking with Hosni Mubarak and Musharraf, wetin concern them with us. na them go tell us who we should friend.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five of the pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a $3 million ransom, a relative said Saturday, the day after the bundle of cash was apparently dropped by parachute onto the deck of the ship.

so who will tell them that their brother have the money. Abi wetin u go say if the pirate na ur brother? I will telll them the money self na bomb and they dont explode since.

Abeg this one na wayo so that ppl no go disturb them again

what is d difference between his radical changes and that of el rufa'i in Abuja. Nigerians are quick in celebrating politicians. Gullible and Naive ppl