XXXII Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 26–28 апреля 2023 г.

500 XXXII Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки Секция XIII as employment. The novel’s main character, a young school graduate Kudra, comes from a humble family of Mombasa residents. Kudra, like many other girls, is seduced by the advertisements about easy and profitable employment abroad, posed by a local agent. She pays her last money for the arrangements, and soon finds herself employed by a well-off family in Dubai. Soon her masters, the rich businessman Amini and his wife Nayrat, soon inform her that her salary will not be paid until she repays them her air ticket expenses; her passport is withdrawn, and poor Kudra finds herself in the state that in her self-dialogue she describes as “mtumwa wa kisasa” — a modern slave. After being harassed byAmini, Kudra flees his house with some stolen money — only to find herself as a mistress of another wealthy local dweller named Salim, who later pushes her out of his house in favour of a new flame. Having her last employment at a “massage parlour”, whose owner tries to push her into prostitution, Kudra only by chance — or, rather, lucky concurrence of circumstances —manages to return to Kenya. In this novel, Habwe also addresses another topical issue — the juvenile drug addiction, which is given in the story of Kudra’s neighbor Lindo. In these novels Habwe not only investigates a wide spectrum of social ailments facing the young Kenyans, but offers his own vision of the possible solutions. Farida overcomes her trials with the help of her friends and her strong character; Mwanaisha, leaving the life of harlotry, starts a small shop in the province, soon becomes a successful business lady and even makes a career in politics. Kudra and her mother set up in their native Mombasa a private poultry farm and a hairdressing salon, employing local destitute youth in order to fight poverty together. It can be said, that Habwe’s novels not only reflect the mentioned problems with a considerable level of artistry, but also serve as guidelines for the younger audience, especially the young female reader, which is enhanced by the fact that they are written in Swahili, the language of absolute majority. Lyakhovich A. (SPbU, Saint-Petersburg) Hausa print media of Northern Nigeria as a form of mass culture and communication Contemporary communicative culture of Northern Nigeria is a result of modernization originated from the European expansion of the late XIXth — XXth century. Radio, television, press and internet initiated from outside were incorporated artificially into traditional culture of African society. This necessarily leaded to transformation of the borrowed forms and to their correlation with the traditional ones inherited from pre- colonial times. This process was linked to the rethinking of traditional communicative mechanisms regarding their form, substance and functions.