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Recently, Indian publisher, Blaft, published an English tranlation of Hajiya Balaraba Ramat Yakubu's 1990 novel Alhaki Kukuyo Ne (Sin is a Puppy). Balaraba Ramat Yakubu is one of the earliest, and most popular, Soyayya writers and you can find out more about her here. And if you are the slightest bit curious about reading Hausa Popular Literature, there is a link to an excerpt of Sin is a Puppy on Blaft's blog here.

