Affiliation:
1. Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria
Abstract
Cultural contact results in cultural friction since a culture, like an organism in the face of a threat, goes into the so-called 3Fs mode: fight, flight, or freeze. Academically, one of the cultures, usually the weaker, may acculturate, may be assimilated, or it may reject the other culture. It is also possible for no cultural conflict when cultures meet, for instance the Tungus-Cossack contact. Hausa people were colonised by the British and ruled indirectly for half a century. This had a great impact on many aspects of the culture leading to changes in the society, such as the transformation of the economy and the consequent social implications. Despite these changes, Hausa art and architecture remained, if largely uninfluenced, duly unmindful of Western art and architecture. Between 1920 and 1940, Hausa architecture reached its zenith according to one scholar. This chapter explores the reasons behind this cultural resilience and hypothesises that Hausa culture has within it the disposition and inclination that make such a dispensation not only possible but predictable.
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