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Kirari

Hausa · Hausa / Northern Nigeria; Niger; zongo communities in Ghana · Oral Literature

Praise epithets and praise-shouting. Robinson glosses kirari as '1. praise, laudation; 2. self-laudation; 3. flattery; 4. a call passed from village to village'.

The praise-singer called out the emir's kirari.

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