Baba of Karo

Baba of Karo is a 1954 book by the anthropologist Mary F. Smith. The book is an anthropological record of the Hausa people, partly compiled from an oral account given by Baba (1877-1951), the daughter of a Hausa farmer and Koranic teacher, and translated by Smith.

Smith's husband, the anthropologist M. G. Smith, contributed an explanation of the Hausa's cultural context.

The 1981 reissue of Baba of Karo contains a foreword by Hilda Kuper.