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	Hausa People
		Origin myths among the Hausa claim that their founder, Bayajidda, came from the east in an effort to escape his father.
		The rise of the Hausa states occurred between 500 and 700 A.D., but it was not until 1200 that they really began to control the region.
		According to tradition, Islam was brought to Hausa territory by Muhommad Al-Maghili, an Islamic cleric, teacher, and missionary, who came from Bornu toward the end of the 15th century.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Hausa.html (559 words)

	Hausa--General Information
		Hausa is spoken by an estimated 22 million native speakers, plus an additional 17 million second language speakers (information from Ethnologue).
		The largest native speaking population is in northern Nigeria, where Hausa is the native language of the majority of the population and a universal lingua franca regardless of a speaker's first language.
		Hausa is a lingua franca in Muslim populations in much of West Africa, particularly south of Mali (where Bambara is the main lingua franca) and east of Senegambia (where Wolof is the main lingua franca).
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/aflang/Hausa/Language/bg.html (0 words)

	Hausa people - Definition, explanation
		The Hausa are a people of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger.
		Hausa are an ancient culture that had an extensive coverage area, and long ties to the Arabs.
		A ethnography on the Hausa people of Africa.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/ha/hausa_people.php (221 words)

	African Langauges Courses (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hausa is of the Chadic family of the Afro-Asiatic language group.
		The majority of Hausa people are Muslims, so the language is rich with words borrowed from Arabic, especially for subjects such as religion, education, science, law and administration.
		Arabic script is still used in literary and religious works, especially among Hausa speakers and people of limited Latin script literacy.
	www.msu.edu /~linglang/african/hausa.htm (149 words)

	Hausa people - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African regions of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger.
		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.
		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 Senega, through extended long distance trade.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hausa_people (1320 words)

	Hausa
		Some scholars believe that there is a link between the Hausa and the people of Ethiopia based on shared worship of the sun, practiced prior to the arrival of Islam and Christianity.
		Hausa is spoken as a first language by an estimated 24 million speakers and as a second language by an additional 15 million people across a broad band of countries, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, and Togo.
		Northern Hausa dialects include Arewa and Arawa considered to be the standard heard on both Nigerian radio and TV and international Hausa broadcasting such as BBC Hausa, Deutsche Welle, The Voice of America (VOA) Hausa, and others.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july/hausa.html (0 words)

	Teach Yourself Hausa Language, Learn to Speak hausa + BBC Service VOA Tribe & People Culture
		Hausa is spoken by, an estimated 22 million native speakers, plus an additional 17 million second language speaker.
		Northern Hausa (spoken in Katsina in Nigeria and Marad’ and Zinder in Niger),
		In Nigeria, standard Hausa are the most heard in broadcast media, including both Nigerian radio and television and international Hausa broadcasting, such as the BBC Hausa, Deutsche Welle, The Voice of America (VOA) Hausa, and others.
	www.teachyourselfhausa.com (0 words)

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		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.
		The Hausa remain in preeminent in Niger and Northern Nigeria.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hausa_people (778 words)

	Kano Online - Articles
		Thus from 1933 when the first set of Hausa novels were published, we have witnessed the emergence of second and third generation of Hausa novelists and finally in the mid 1980s the fourth generation emerged.
		Hausa play and poetry has declined it is the novel that lives on as even the short story genre has declined.
		Hausa poetry is today restricted to political campaigns periods and Hausa plays relegated to TV dramas and Home videos.
	www.kanoonline.com /publications/pr_articles_hausa_literary_movement.html (1659 words)

	Hausa people - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There are also significant numbers found in northern regions of Benin, Ghana, Niger, Cameroon and in smaller communities scattered throughout West Africa and on the traditonal Hajj route from West Africa, moving through Chad, and Sudan.
		Many Hausa have moved to large coastal cities in West Africa such as Lagos, Accra or Cotounou, as well as to countries such as Libya in search of jobs that pay cash wages.
		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 Senegal, through extended long distance trade.
	www.recipeland.com /facts/Hausa_people (384 words)

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		While most of the Hausa live in Hausaland, some of the people are found scattered from West Africa all the way to the Congo Republic settled temporarily as traders or sometimes even permanently.
		There are some Hausa people that do not follow Islam, they are called Maguzawa and they worship nature spirits called bori or iskoki.
		The Hausa grow a variety of crops and vegetables during the rainy season, mainly millet, maize, and sorghum over the 4 to 5 month span.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/hausa.html (478 words)

	Mythinglinks/AFRICA/Sub-Sahara: Hausa & Fulani Peoples of Niger, Nigeria, Mali
		For a good deal of the history of the Hausa region, the area was under the political pressure or even the vassalage of their more powerful neighbors of Bornu-Kanem, Songhay, and Mali, as each power rose up in their respective turn.
		Only ethnic Hausa girls, and girls whose families originated in Kano were affected, even though the population of one school, a government college in Jigawa State, was mixed by ethnicity, religion and home residence....
		Today Hausa has about 40 million first- and second-language speakers, concentrated in Nigeria, where it is one of three national languages, and in Niger, where Hausas are the majority ethnic group....
	www.mythinglinks.org /afr~subsahara~HausaFulani.html (1910 words)

	the Living Africa: the people - ethnic groups - Hausa
		The Hausa are subsistent farmers, and it is their main occupation.
		The Hausa are also known as traders with some becoming quite wealthy and achieving a social status similar to a powerful Hausa politician.
		The Afro-Asiatic language of the Hausa is a subgroup of the Chad family.
	library.thinkquest.org /16645/the_people/ethnic_hausa.shtml (215 words)

	SIM People Group Profile: Hausa
		In the early twentieth century, with the Hausa on the verge of overthrowing the Fulani, the British invaded northern Nigeria.
		Hausa society is extremely hierarchical, and all authority in large familial households lies in the hands of the eldest male member.
		The founders of SIM went to Nigeria in 1893 with the expressed goal of reaching the Hausa people with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
	www.sim.org /pg.asp?fun=1&pgID=2 (0 words)

	Muslim History and Pride Month -- How Islam Came to the Hausa People Unit Study
		It has been familiar to everyone from the time of their grandfathers and grandmothers, and is a thing which has been handed down from the malamai (learned men) and the elders.
		If a questioner ask of you, Where did the Hausa people have their origin?" say, "Truly their origin was the Barebari and Northerners." And this is the account of how this came to pass.
		Hausas and Barebari and whatever races you can name in the West were at first in early times pagans.
	www.muslimhomeschool.com /pride/edmaterial/Hausa.htm (2585 words)

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		The modern Hausa of Nigeria are mainly concentrated in the provinces of Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, and Zaria.
		The Islamic religion was introduced among the Hausa as early as the 1500s, but its predominance was not fully established until the Fulbe-led jihad (holy war) of the early nineteenth century.
		Among the Muslim Hausa, participation in spirit possession cults, limited to women and members of the lower strata, is indicative of the persistence of some of the more traditional Hausa religious beliefs.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7844 (1456 words)

	africa indigenous studies hausa people
		The peoples of Africa are often described in terms of their ethnic background or their languages.
		Some of the peoples and associations presented here are so closely related that more than one topic heading may apply.
		While most of the Hausa live in Hausaland, some of the people are found scattered from West Africa all the way to the Congo Republic settled temporarily as traders or sometimes even permanently." - From Minnesota State University - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/hausa.html
	www.archaeolink.com /africa_indigenous_studies_hausa_.htm (471 words)

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		The Germans never managed to extend their colonial holdings, but the Hausa people were already living in many parts of Africa.
		With a population of 23 million, the Hausa people are the largest ethnic group in Subsaharan Africa.
		Almost 100 percent of the Hausa people are Muslim, though their form of Islam is tainted by spirit worship and other forms of animism.
	www.global-prayer-digest.org /dailydata/getdaily.asp?which=chosenday&whichyear=2004&whichmonth=11&whichday=21 (379 words)

	SIM People Group Profile: Fulani
		The Fulani are a people group in several regions of Africa, whose distinctive physical features are similar to people in Egypt, northern Sudan, and Ethiopia.
		Fulani is the term used by the Hausa and most of the tribes in Northern Nigeria to refer to this group of people.
		Often their wives are Hausa women, and they have adopted the Hausa culture as their own and feel completely comfortable in it.
	www.sim.org /PG.asp?pgID=15&fun=1 (0 words)

	urbana.org - Articles
		AF is intensively working to plant churches in the Muslim people groups of northern Africa.
		We are believing that churches from every major city will adopt an unreached people by the end of the year 2000.
		They are now preparing to serve the unreached Hausa people in the Ivory Coast starting in June 2000.
	www.urbana.org /_articles.cfm?RecordId=250 (678 words)

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	Bible League dedicates new Hausa Bible in Nigeria
		The new Bible is a revised edition of the 1932 Union version, the only complete Hausa Bible translation available in the native language of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest people group.
		Due to the language’s dynamic nature—it changes and evolves over time— some of the Hausa used in 1932 is now archaic, making a new version necessary, said the Bible League’s Executive Director for Africa Ministry.
		Hausa is spoken by more than 22 million in Africa.
	www.bibleleague.org /news/newsrel/newsrelhausa.php (232 words)

	The Hausa People (Nigeria) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The flag of the proposed Hausa dominated state of 1966 as shown in [
		Nations Without States describes the 1966 flag adopted by the Hausas as five horizontal stripes: red, yellow, INDIGO BLUE, green and khaki biege:
		The Hausas are the dominant ethnic group in the North of Nigeria (40-45% of the population of the country), with Kano as Capital.
	www.flaggen.com /flags/ng}hausa.html (109 words)

	Guinea Coast, 1400–1600 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		to Hausaland brings a strong Muslim influence to the region and increases the Hausa people's prosperous involvement in trans-Saharan trade.
		The decentralized agrarian Igbo peoples, who had settled in the area in the ninth century, are protected geographically by large swamps from the militaristic expansionist kingdoms of northern Nigeria.
		The Nupe peoples from west central Nigeria capture the city of Owo, exiling its dynastic leaders, who establish a new capital at Igboho.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/08/sfg/ht08sfg.htm (1058 words)

	MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: PEOPLES (by Boomie O.)
		I have seen an estimate of 101 million people from the ABC Country Book, 114 million from the World Bank, 127 million from the United Nations estimate, all for the year 1995.
		It has one of the highest population densities in the world (at one time, it had the third highest population densities), and roughly 1 out of every 4 Africans is a Nigerian.
		In terms of healthcare, though western medicine was brought into the country and is practiced, there is no doubt that there are still traditional forms of healing that have been beneficial, and now a mixture of the two are used.
	www.motherlandnigeria.com /people.html (0 words)

	UNHCR - Ghana: Information on the Hausa-Muslim population in Kumasi; what percentage of the population of Kumasi is ...
		UNHCR - Ghana: Information on the Hausa-Muslim population in Kumasi; what percentage of the population of Kumasi is Hausa, what are the areas of concentration of the Hausa people, and what are the political activities and major occupations of the Hausa people
		According to The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Hausa people are found mainly in northwestern Nigeria and southern Niger (1989, 752).
		According to a consular officer at the High Commission of Ghana, there is a Hausa population in Kumasi, but the officer was unable to tell what percentage of Kumasi's population is Hausa (18 Feb. 1993).
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3ae6ac3918.html (286 words)

	Egypt State Information Service-13th Issue Spring 2003
		Until a Hausa man is married, he has no say in matters of consequence.
		The engagement, in Nigeria's seven Hausa provinces, begins with the boy's family sending gifts to the girl's family through an old woman.
		With the bride having already left for her husband's place, the bridegroom is usually made to accompany a fake bride amidst music and songs.
	www.sis.gov.eg /En/Pub/africanperspective/13thissuespring2003/110413000000000008.htm (620 words)

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		The Hausa people have been heavily influenced by Arab Muslims, both in their musical style, and in their religious practices.
		The Hausas have the entire Bible translated into their language, but only 10 percent of them can read.
		Pray for a spiritual breakthrough among the Hausa people.
	www.global-prayer-digest.org /dailydata/getdaily.asp?which=chosenday&whichyear=2005&whichmonth=6&whichday=4 (367 words)

	The Hausa People (Nigeria)
		The flag of the proposed Hausa dominated state of 1966 as shown in [eba94] consists of five horizontal stripes: red, yellow, BLACK, green, and light brown.
		Hausa is a language group consisting of 10-15 million people primaril in Northern Nigeria and Niger.
		The emblem is named Northern Knot and was used in the Nigerian national flag for some months in 1963 (until October) as the North Nigeria regional flag.
	www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/ng}hausa.html (313 words)

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