Abstract
Marriage partner selection, though something very close to us, has not been as simple and straight
forward as the name denotes. Rather, it involves a lot of specialty and competence to accomplish.
In fact, it has been a very serious and contentious subject of discussion amongst scholars. Various
factors determine the selection of marriage partners, which vary from a society to another. This
study is set to investigate into the attitude of undergraduate male students towards selection of
female graduate and or undergraduate students as marriage partners, with the view of ascertaining
if level of females’ education in Northern Nigeria (and especially within the Hausa-folk) is a
determining variable for a female to be chosen in marriage. The population of the study consists of
all the students of the Department of Educational Foundations, Usmanu Danfodiyo University,
Sokoto, Nigeria, which equals to 560 students. Total number of 226 students are selected as the
sampled population. Moreover, questionnaire is used as the research instrument. The instrument
was submitted to experts in the departments of Science and Vocational Education, and
Educational Foundations respectively for validity check. However, the findings of the study indicate
among others that, male undergraduate students have positive attitudes towards the selection of
female under/graduate students as marriage partners. Finally, the research upper some
suggestions among which one is that, there should be further study on the attitudes of other
Hausas of different socio-economic status towards females’ education.
author/Umar, M.M., Sani, A-U. & Yahaya, S.
journal/DELAC FUGUS E-Librarypdf-https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D6kZcU2pEAH8MOmpJLkYYcLeuPc5CAEZ/view?usp=sharing
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