Even the Emirs in central Hausaland, such as those in Kano and Zazzau, proudly identify as Fulani Emirs, even though they are socio-culturally ‘Hausa.’ ...

Even the Emirs in central Hausaland, such as those in Kano and Zazzau, proudly identify as Fulani Emirs, even though they are socio-culturally ‘Hausa’.

After about 500 years of imperial dominance—extending into present-day Republic of Benin and Togo, and reaching the Sahelian fringes of Nupe, Borgu, and parts of Hausaland—the fall of the Old ...

The Hausa people (or Hausawa) are the original and indigenous people of Hausaland, traversing the North-West, and parts of North-Eastern and North Central (or Middle-Belt) of Nigeria.

The Hausa Ajami script authors from Nigeria already had a tradition from the Hausaland about a RED HUNTER arriving from somewhere to meet an old woman and requesting water from same. That story has ...

Second, it is unlikely that Abd Allah el-Ghadamisi’s autobiography is the book IBB’s grandfather was fond of and that students of Arabic in Hausaland read for pedagogical and spiritual nourishment, ...

The village of Kumurya in Kano where IBB told a biographer his paternal roots are located was founded by the Agalawa, a historical trading community in Hausaland, originally of Tuareg (Berber) stock ...

Despite his long absence from the epicentre of power, General Ibrahim Babangida remains a subject of constant fascinations.

Some of the dishes such as the one in Yorubaland and Hausaland were peppery while the Igbo and others in the South-eastern part of what became Nigeria used peppers sparingly.