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 Fulanis are, thus, a dominant minority. This is a dominance that arose from their conquest and colonisation of Hausaland and neigbouring states in 1805.

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, ...

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 ...

He soon started having trouble with his old friends. In 1991, the African Concord, one of the publications of the Concord Group of Newspapers owned by Abiola, wrote a story that annoyed the ...

They have succeeded in doing the same in Hausaland, where they killed all Hausa kings and replaced them with Fulani rulers. Their unforgiving and unrelenting quest for total power also manifested ...

They use Badamasi in Hausaland; we use Gbadamosi in Yorubaland. Bidimosi (Badmus, Bidmus) is a recent variant…It is not as popular as Ghadamisi. With the Ghadamisi were the Wangara.