A Modest Proposal in Hausa (Wata ‘Yar Shawara a Hausa)

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A Modest Proposal in Hausa: Jonathan Swift’s 1729 satirical essay on the poverty of Ireland, in a Hausa translation.

Original author: Jonathan Swift. Original title: A Modest Proposal. Translated into Hausa from the English original.

Ireland, shekarar 1729: ‘ya’yan talakawa sun cika tituna, iyayensu mata suna bara. Mai magana a wannan maƙalar Jonathan Swift yana lissafin yawansu, yana auna farashinsu, sannan ya gabatar da wata shawara da za ta sa kowane mai karatu ya razana.

Lissafinsa, yabon da yake yi wa tsarinsa da hujjojinsa suna bayyana zaluncin da ke ɓoye a cikin tunanin cewa ɗan Adam haja ne. Jonathan Swift ya wallafa wannan maƙalar ta zambo a shekarar 1729.

An fassara wannan rubutu daga Turanci. Asalin rubutun shi ne A Modest Proposal na Jonathan Swift, a bugun Project Gutenberg mai lamba 1080.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #1080. Paperback, 108 x 175 mm, 36 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover: Paul Fourdrinier, after Charles Jervas, Jonathan Swift. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1962-186.