This chapter discusses the importance of reading Shakespeare in Northern Nigeria—not as an end itself, but as a means of improving access to and engagement with local languages and literary production. Crucially, however, this chapter argues that translating Shakespeare is not necessarily the best way of doing this, as it risks further entrenching the dominance of Hausa in Northern Nigeria at the expense of other local languages. Instead, it advocates taking a comparative literature approach to the works of the Nigerian playwright Ahmed Yerima and the foreign playwright William Shakespeare, thereby domesticating the latter and challenging the hegemonic status of the English language and Anglophone literature in the process.