The papers consist of Jean Trevor's sociological study of of Hausa women from northern Nigeria. Included are record cards and notes, plus an offprint of her chapter 'Family change in Sokoto: a traditional Moslem Fulani/Hausa city' in JC Caldwell et al (eds), Population growth and socio economic change in West Africa (Columbia University Press, 1974), and a copy of her thesis.
Jean Trevor papers
This material is held atUniversity of Exeter Archives
- Reference
- GB 29 EUL MS79
- Dates of Creation
- c1968-1974
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English, and Hausa.
- Physical Description
- 3 linear metres
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Jean Trevor began working on the sociology of the Hausa women of northern Nigeria in the late 1960s. Based at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, she received a Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Scolarship and further support from the Carnegie Foundation and the Ford foundation to help her research, which included a series of interviews with Hausa women. She died before her research was presented to Exeter University as a PhD thesis.
Access Information
Usual EUL arrangements apply
Acquisition Information
The collection was donated by the Oxford Development Records Project in May 1983.
Other Finding Aids
Unlisted
Conditions Governing Use
Usual EUL arrangements apply