Mission , Vision and Philosophy
Mission
The mission of the Department of African Languages and Cultures in addition to enhancing the agency of humanities generally, is to furnish graduates with the necessary expertise and capacity to conduct high level research and serve as analysts, advocates and responsible critics of African languages, literature and culture.
Vision
In consonance with the vision of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria of creating, a University per excellence, the Department of African Languages, (Hausa Programmes) envisages to meet the national and international needs of training students and conducting researches in African Languages for human development within the linguistics, literary, and culture domains most especially in response to globalization.
Philosophy
Arguably, humanity's primary achievement is not science and technology but culture, and while language is the centrepiece of culture, it is also the palpable hallmark of literature. Experience has taught modern man the ever increasing desirability to recognize and aggressively re-launch the primacy of language as that branch of knowledge that has the best potentialities in assisting him not only to comprehend and express but also serve as a mirror to reflect into the past as well as a lamp to illuminate the future. In appreciation of this, the need arises for the search, acquisition and dissemination of knowledge relevant to the needs of the immediate and larger community through the systematic study of African languages.