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Charles Henry Robinson (1861–1925) was a Cambridge scholar who, during the 1890s, published several books on the language, literature and culture of the Hausa people. Hausa is an African language originating in Niger and northern Nigeria and spoken widely in West and Central Africa as a lingua franca. Published in 1897, Robinson's Grammar was written to serve the needs of missionaries, colonial staff and army officers who wished to communicate with the local people, but made no claim to be definitive or comprehensive. Until the twentieth century Hausa was written in an Arabic script, examples of which are given, while the exercise sections of the grammar are transliterated for students unfamiliar with Arabic. The vocabulary, mainly relating to agriculture, trade and domestic life, was chosen to suit the practical needs of Robinson's intended audience, and reveals much about colonial life in West Africa as well as providing linguistic information.
La première édition de cet ouvrage est notée en 1897; il sera remanié et augmenté avec l'aide du Major J. Alder Burdon en 1905
Charles Henry Robinson (1861-1925) est un enseignant et missionnaire anglais. Il suivra les traces de son frère John Alfred Robinson fondateur de la "Hausa Association" qui travaillait au Nigeria pour la Church Missionary Society et qui meurt à Lokodja en 1891. C. H. Robinson se consarera à l'étude de la langue et de la littérature hausa et publiera sur ce sujet plusieurs ouvrages en plus du récit de son voyage.
