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| | Regions with significant populations | | Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Chad, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Sudan | | Languages | | Hausa | | Religions | | Sunni Islam | The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African regions of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. There are also significant numbers found in regions of Sudan, Cameroon, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Chad and smaller communities scattered throughout West Africa and on the traditional Hajj route across the Sahara Desert and Sahel. Many Hausa have moved to large coastal cities in West Africa such as Lagos, Accra and Cotonou, as well as to countries such as Libya, in search of jobs that pay cash wages. However, most Hausa remain in small villages, where they grow crops (Hausa farmers time their activities according to seasonal changes in rainfall and temperature) and raise livestock, including cattle. They speak the Hausa language, a member of the Chadic language group, itself a sub-group of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family. Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 24 million people, and as a second language by about 15 million more. ...
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Western Africa (UN subregion) Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ...
Western Africa (UN subregion) Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ...
A supplicating pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram The Hajj (Arabic: , transliteration: ) is the Pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam. ...
The Sahara is the worlds second largest desert (second to Antarctica), over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), located in northern Africa and is 2. ...
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Accra, population 1,970,400 (2005), is the capital of Ghana. ...
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Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 24 million people, and as a second language by about 15 million more. ...
The Chadic languages are a language family spoken across Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum; their best-known member is Hausa, the lingua franca of much of West Africa. ...
The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family (Languages of Africa) with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). ...
History and culture
Kano is considered the center of Hausa trade and culture. In terms of cultural relations to other peoples of West Africa, the Hausa are culturally and historically close to the Fulani, Songhay, Mandé and Tuareg as well as other Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan groups further East in Chad and Sudan. Islamic Shari’a law is loosely the law of the land and is understood by any full time practitioner of Islam, known in Hausa as a Mallam (see Maulana). Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the third largest city in Nigeria, in terms of geographical size, after Ibadan and Lagos. ...
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The Songhai are an ethnic group living in western Africa. ...
Mandé is an ethnic group of West Africa. ...
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Map showing the distribution of Afro-Asiatic languages The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia. ...
Map showing the distribution of the Nilo-Saharan languages. ...
The Chari or Shari River is a 949-kilometer-long river of central Africa, flowing from the Central African Republic through Chad into Lake Chad. ...
Maulana is a title of respect, technically reserved for Muslim scholars or Ulema (plural of Aalim) who are knowledgable about Islam and have studied under a scholar or at a religious institution, e. ...
Between 500 CE and 700 CE Hausa people, who had been slowly moving west from Nubia and mixing in with the local Northern and Central Nigerian population, established a number of strong states in what is now Northern and Central Nigeria and Eastern Niger. With the decline of the Nok and Sokoto, who had previously controlled Central and Northern Nigeria between 800 BCE and 200 CE, the Hausa were able to emerge as the new power in the region. Closely linked with the Kanuri people of Kanem-Bornu (Lake Chad), the Hausa aristocracy adopted Islam in the 11th century CE. By the 12th century CE the Hausa were becoming one of Africa's major powers. The architecture of the Hausa is perhaps one of the least known but most beautiful of the medieval age. Many of their early mosques and palaces are bright and colourful and often include intricate engraving or elaborate symbols designed into the facade. By 1500 CE the Hausa utilized a modified Arabic script known as ajami to record their own language; the Hausa compiled several written histories, the most popular being the Kano Chronicle. Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan. ...
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Location of Sokoto in Nigeria, Sokoto is a city located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near to where the Sokoto River and Rima River meet. ...
The Kanuri are an African ethnic group living in Bornu state in northeastern Nigeria, southeast Niger, western Chad and northern Cameroon. ...
The Kanem-Bornu Empire existed in modern Chad and Nigeria. ...
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The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language, which is the language of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. ...
Ajam in Arabic means non-Arab, or in particular non-Arabic-speaker. ...
The Kano Chronicle is a written account of the history of the Hausa people who inhabit northern Nigeria. ...
In 1810 the Fulani, another Islamic African ethnic group that spanned across West Africa, invaded the Hausa states. Their cultural similarities however allowed for significant integration between the two groups, who in modern times are often demarcated as "Hausa-Fulani", rather than as individuated groups and many Fulani in the region do not distinguish themselves from the Hausa. Categories: Africa-related stubs | Burkina Faso | Cameroon | Ethnic groups of Africa | Fulani Empire | Mali | Nigeria ...
The Hausa-Fulani is a term sometimes used for the people of the Hausa kingdoms of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and the Fulani Empire of the nineteenth of Northern Nigeria, Mali, and Niger. ...
The Hausa remain in preeminent in Niger and Northern Nigeria. Their impact in Nigeria is paramount, as the Hausa-Fulani amalgamation has controlled Nigerian politics for much of its independent history. They remain one of the largest and most historically grounded civilizations in West Africa. Northern Nigeria was a British formed in 1900 from the interior territories of the Royal Niger Company, north from about where the Niger River and Benin River joined at Lokoja. ...
Religious Violence In Northern Nigeria The Hausa-Fulani have killed more than 200,000 christians in their areas in ritual religious violence since 1966. This killings are usually carried out through the support of their political leaders and prompting of their religious leaders. While the Hausa continue to hypocritically insist on "one Nigeria" so that they can continue to benefit from the oil resources, they by their actions have constituted the greatest obstacle to Nigeria's unity.Many factors can prove this reality. (1) The North remains segregated. Southern Nigerians living in the North are forced to live in sabon gari.In employment Southern Nigerians continue to face discrimination.(2) Ethnic and religious riots have become an instrument of terrorism frequently used in the North against christians. The introduction of sharia in 1999 and the sharia riots alone resulted in over 20,000 deaths. Recently a cartoon published in Denmark resulted in the killing of christians in the North.The killings are usually done with a barbarity and bestiality never before seen. According to an eye witness, pregnant women are cut open and the baby ripped from their womb and stabbed to death, such hatred manisfested in the North is paradoxical to their one Nigerian stand.The Hausa is also significantly responsible for Nigeria's massive corruption, nepotism,tribalism, inneficiency and general decay. There are now many groups engaged in insurgency and seeking seccesion because of long years of abusive Northern rule. Anti-North sentiment remains very strong in Nigeria.
Religion Hausa have an ancient culture that had an extensive coverage area, and long ties to the Arabs and other Islamized peoples in West Africa, such as the Mandé, Fulani and even the Wolof of Senegambia, through extended long distance trade. Islam has been present in Hausaland since the 14th century but it was largely restricted to the region's rulers and their courts. Rural areas generally retained their animist beliefs and their urban leaders thus drew on both Islamic and African traditions to legitimise their rule. Muslim scholars of the early nineteenth century disapproved of the hybrid religion practised in royal courts, and a desire for reform was a major motive behind the formation of the Sokoto Caliphate.[1] It was after the formation of this state that Islam became firmly entrenched in rural areas. The Hausa people have been an important vector for the spread of Islam in West Africa through economic contact, diaspora trading communities, and politics. Languages Arabic other minority languages Religions Predominantly Sunni Islam, as well as Shia Islam, Greek Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Alawite Islam, Druzism, Ibadi Islam, and Judaism Footnotes a Mainly in Antakya. ...
Mandé is an ethnic group of West Africa. ...
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Maguzawa, the animist religion, was practiced extensively before Islam. In the more remote areas of Hausaland Maguzawa has remained fully intact, but as you get closer to more urban areas it almost totally disappears. It often includes the sacrifice of animals for personal ends, it is thought of as illegitimate to practice Maguzawa magic for harm. What remains in more populous areas is a “cult of spirit-possession” known as Bori (religion) which still holds the old religion's elements of animism and magic. [citation needed]The Bori classification of reality has countless spirits many named and with definite powers. While the Malamai condemn Bori rituals, ceremonies, and beliefs; the Muslim Hausa population live in peace with the Bori. Many Bori refer to themselves as Muslims and many Muslims disregard total orthodoxy to utilize Bori magic which they agree keeps bad spirits out of their homes. Bori and Islam actually compliment each other in Hausa communities because the Qadiriyyah sect of Islam has elements of animism such as spirts called ‘jinn’ and some of the charms (malamai) used are considered magic elements. As one can surmise Islam is not practiced strictly according to Qur'anic scriptures, it is therefore not an orthopraxy. Instead Islamic law comes to be Hausa law through an Islamic practice called ‘’ijma’ which means 'consensus'. When a community agrees on certain rituals to Allah or the nature of God it is basically law. Some beliefs are even antithetical to Qur'anic dogmas, like miracles attributed to Muhammad and belief in saints.[citation needed] Qur'anic practices that have persisted amongst the Hausa are the Hajj, and praying five times a day in the direction of Mecca. During Muslim festivals, like New Year and Mawlid people greet each other with gifts. Maguzawa is a term that is used to describe Hausa citizens who still adhere to some of the tenets of the pre-Islamic traditional religions of Kano and Katsina. ...
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Qadiriyyah (Arabic: القادريه) (also transliterated Qadiri), is one of the oldest Sufi tariqas, derives its name from Abdul Qadir Jilani (also transliterated as Gilani) (1077-1166), a native of the Iranian province of Gilan. ...
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Sharia (Arabic شريعة also Sharia, Shariah or Syariah) is traditional Islamic law. ...
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The Quran (Arabic: al-qurÄn, literally the recitation; also called Al QurÄn Al KarÄ«m or The Noble Quran; or transliterated Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ...
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Population Table of Hausa population by country [2] Image File history File links Flag_of_Algeria. ...
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See also The Hausa-Fulani is a term sometimes used for the people of the Hausa kingdoms of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and the Fulani Empire of the nineteenth of Northern Nigeria, Mali, and Niger. ...
Bayajidda (also Abuyazidu) is a character from the mythology of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria. ...
References - ^ Robinson, David, Muslim Societies in African History (Cambridge, 2004), p141
- ^ Joshua Project, Peoples Listing, Hausa. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.
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External Links - Hausa Information at Art and Life in Africa Online
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