The ‘Song of Bagauda’: a Hausa king list and homily in verse–I

The ‘Song of Bagauda’ ( WB ) is apparently known to Joseph Greenberg, for he quotes two hemistichs from it in his article on Hausa prosody. He refers to the work briefly, among a list of unpublished Hausa poems as a ‘ qaṣīda History of Kano’, but gives no further details of subject-matter or provenance.