One of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari, Zahra, has revealed she can’t speak fluently in the Hausa language.
Zahra at a BBC Hausa event on Friday stunned guests when she disclosed that she is unable to speak fluently in her father’s language.
The event was to unveil winners of a literary contest organised by the broadcast station.
President Buhari is a Hausa man from Daura, a core Hausa city in Katsina while Zahra’s mother, Aisha, is a Fulani from Adamawa.
“I’ll make you laugh,” Zahra, who is married to businessman Ahmed Indimi said when asked to make a comment at the ceremony officiated in Hausa.
She said she and her siblings rarely communicate in the language.
”Every day my father would correct my Hausa when I converse with him” she said in Hausa amidst laughter.
She said they usually communicate in “Engausa” a colloquial term for mixing of English and Hausa in a conversation.
She attributed her inability to speak good Hausa to attending schools with “children of white people.”
The president’s daughter later told interviewers off stage that they mostly speak in her mother’s native Fulfude language at home.
