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Hausa people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hausa have an ancient culture that had an extensive coverage area, and long ties to the Arabs. From the sixteenth to start of the nineteenth century the Hausa federation, a loose union of city-states were an important regional power. The Hausa have been Muslim since the 14th century, and have converted many other West African peoples to the Muslim faith by contact, trade, and jihads. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hausa_people   (189 words)

Know Nigeria... Hausa is the most widely spoken language in Nigeria because in 1951–67 it was an official language of the northern states, and the Hausa-Fulani have continued to dominate Nigerian politics. In the early 19th century, Fulani emirs were appointed rulers of several Hausa states, and the Fulani empire emerged, extending from Gandu in the west to Adamawa in the east (excluding Bornu). Meanwhile, a people known as the Fulani had long been migrating into the Hausa lands; most of the Fulani were nomadic, but some settled in towns and mingled with the Hausa population. www.fedpolybida.org /nigeria.html   (2594 words)

Power and politics of Hausa The resistance of locals were usually polarised, because, the Fulani having adopted the local language, they would give out their daughters in marriage to the elite and the royal among the locals, thereby dividing the conquered and setting them against themselves. Between 1834 and 1897, the Fulani and the Yoruba engaged in endless wars and the most decisive was the 1840 battle, when the Fulani were heartlessly massacred and driven to llorin. One of the most interesting is the military prowess of the Fulani which though not so fantastic, has been mystified through their ability to fuel acrimony among their rivals and their capacity to show great courage in the defence of collective interest than the defense of individual wisdom. www.nigerdeltacongress.com /particles/power_and_politics_of_hausa.htm   (2463 words)

The Hausa and Fulani of Northern Nigeria - Robert W. Nicholls This perception is due in part to reciprocity between Hausa farmers and Fulani pastoralists, and in part to the fact that the Hausa have accepted the rule of Fulani emirs (kings) since the Fulani jihads of the early nineteenth century. The Hausa and Fulani are often taken to be a single group. Hausa's importance as a major African vernacular is underscored by the number of Hausa-language programs broadcast from non-African radio stations, including the BBC of London, Voice of America, West Germany, the Soviet Union, and China. www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1989/july/Sa15974.htm   (314 words)

Hausas and Islam as Hausa mind reclamation is a critical prerequisite for peace in Nigeria, and this must begin with the de-monopolization of Fulani control over the media information consumed by the general masses of illiterate Hausas and other related peoples, both in the North and South. The project is to enable the Fulani power elite to control the opinion of Hausas and the other affinity ethnic groups in the Muslim North so that national power can be retained by the regional, but especially the Fulani, elite, who in turn will make the country’s resources available to these key Western countries. This hideous form of politics robs Hausas of their sense of ethno-national pride and is responsible for the observable cultural immobility in Hausaland, to which characteristic social phenomena such as street begging in the region are attributable. www.nigerdeltacongress.com /harticles/hausas_and_islam_as.htm   (1711 words)

Hausa --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! Northern Nigeria has long been dominated by the Muslim Hausa, who since the 19th century have been ruled by Fulani emirs. Hausa society was, and to a large extent continues to be, politically organized on a feudal basis. The ruler (emir) of one of the several Hausa states is surrounded by a number of titled officeholders who hold villages as fiefs, from which their agents collect taxes. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9039547   (1064 words)

Resources on the Fulani ...politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21... The Fulani were traditionally a nomadic, pastoral community, herding cattle, goats and sheep across the vast dry hinterlands of their domain, keeping somewhat separate from the local agricultural populations. Fulani strength was centered on powerful cavalry that could quickly move across the large empire and defeat rivals. www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/african/Fulani.html   (849 words)

Culture.7844 The modern Hausa of Nigeria are mainly concentrated in the provinces of Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, and Zaria. 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. 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. lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7844   (1456 words)

SIM Canada In the early twentieth century, with the Hausa on the verge of overthrowing the Fulani, the British invaded northern Nigeria. The Fulani came to rule all these states after conducting a holy war against the Hausa in 1804. This coalition had its beginnings much earlier, because the Fulani governed by simply assuming the highest hereditary positions in the well-organized Hausa political system. www.sim.ca /index.php?section=PeopleGroups&view=2   (690 words)

Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net This rule was noted for its despotism towards both the Fulani and the Hausa peasants. The Fulani were mostly Islam Muslims, as were the rulers of most of the states in the region. Since Fulani strength was centered on powerful cavalry they could not expand very far southwards, however, as the horses were ineffective in the forests of the region and could not withstand the diseases of those latitudes. www.mauspfeil.net /Fulani_Empire.html   (900 words)

Class analysis This unholy alliance of the fendal Fulani and nouveau-rich Haus came to be known as the Muslim Hausa Fulani. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that a Fulani Muslim scholar decided to launch a jihad on the people, accusing them of being “pagans” or, in the case of the rulers, of not practicing Islam in the true sense of the word. The political and economic dominance of the new Muslim Fulani was however interrupted by the coming on to the scene of the British colonialists. www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/may02/sharia.html   (1575 words)

MSN Encarta - Nigeria The intensively farmed zones around and including several major cities of the Hausa ethnic group—especially Kano, Sokoto, and Zaria in the north—are also packed with people. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557915_2/Nigeria.html   (980 words)

amebo Within the devout Muslims, the Fulani were predominant, which accounted for the success of the revolt on one hand, and on the other hand the lower class among the Hausa (the indigenous Habe) saw an opportunity to rebel against the overlord ship of their rulers. The answer is capital NO. From the foregoing it is obvious that it is to gain undue political advantage both at the part of the conqueror and the vanquished to be called Hausa-Fulani. The Fulani are of Berber, light-skinned division of mankind. www.usgtechnology.com /amebo/edit/2002/aug/con02.htm   (1164 words)

Hausa on Encyclopedia.com In colonial Nigeria the traditional Hausa-Fulani social and political structure was largely maintained under the British policy of indirect rule. Long the vassals of Bornu, the states were conquered by the Songhay in 1513 and by the Fulani in the early 19th cent. This 7,000 year-old Hausa pot photographed in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, May 5, 2003, was stolen and then returned to the Iraq National Museum under an amnesty program. www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hausa.asp   (695 words)

Hausa World Test He was the only one amongst the five majors that could speak Hausa fluently. Will the parents of the dictator be a Yoruba man, a Hausa man or an Ibo man... Among his friends we used to tease him that he was like a Hausa man.... www.iaswww.com /ODP/Test/World/Hausa   (350 words)

Hausa people - Hausa have an ancient culture that had an extensive coverage area, and long ties to the Arabs. From the sixteenth to start of the nineteenth century the Hausa federation, a loose union of city-states were an important regional power. The Hausa have been Muslim since the 14th century, and have converted many other West African peoples to the Muslim faith by contact, trade, and jihads. www.grohol.com /psypsych/Hausa_people   (231 words)

WorldBook General Reference Encyclopedia > Social Science > Anthropology > Culture > African > Hausa > The Ibo and Hausa - Fulani of Nigeria are each made up of five to ten million people, a figure... Hausa Hausa Hausa is the largest and best-known member of the Chadic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic... A kowace rana, Sashen Hausa na BBC na watsa labarun duniya na akalla tsawon minti biyar a harshen Hausa a lokutta kamar haka: 0530, da 1545 da... www.surfablebooks.com /worldbookgeneral/Social%20Science/Anthropology/Culture/African/Hausa/1.htm   (251 words)

SIM People Group Profile: Fulani Fulani is the term used by the Hausa and most of the tribes in Northern Nigeria to refer to this group of people. Fulani in Benin and Burkina Faso are nomads in the north, but mainly sedentary pastoralists in the south. Nearly 20 million Fulani are spread across 19 African countries in an area stretching from the shores of Sénégal to the borders of Ethiopia. www.sim.org /PG.asp?pgID=15&fun=1   (1010 words)

Nigeria - Ethnic Violence - Tivs - Hausa-Fulan - Worldpress.org Hausas embarked on a systematic campaign of retaliation, first targeting Tivs in public office and then going on house-to-house killing sprees in Nasawara and the state capital, Lafia. Though the Tivs and Hausas both have power bases in Nasawara, neither group is indigenous to the state. The violence was triggered on June 12 by the assassination of Alhaji Musa Ibrahim, a traditional Hausa ruler who had become a special adviser to state Gov. Abdullahi Adamu. www.worldpress.org /Africa/126.cfm   (556 words)

Amana Online Gradually, the status of the Hausa Sarkin Jos was reduced to Magajin Gari by 1948 and subsequently the area came to be known as Birom N.A. after repeated protest and resentment by the Hausa it was immediately changed to Jos N.A. in 1955. According to Plotmicor, "when the Hausa protested against this and constantly petitioned to have the native Town (which they found) removed from the jurisdiction of the Birom native authority, the Birom Tribal council suspended the Jos Town Council on the grounds that it was working satisfactorily. The fact that the Hausas, who later moved to Jos from their first settlement at Naraguta which is a "Typical Hausa Village" 11 and their influence on the tribes of the Plateau12(i.e. www.amanaonline.com /jos/jos_01.htm   (8809 words)

Uthman don Fodio Biography / Biography of Uthman don Fodio Biography One by one the Hausa states of Gobir, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, and Zazzau capitulated to the Fulani and were emulated by pagan areas on the periphery of the Hausa states. He was born in the Hausa state of Gobir, the son of a pious Fulani member of the Qadiriyya Moslem brotherhood. He was also a social reformer who objected to the non-Islamic practices of the Hausa leaders and continually criticized their rule and questioned the legitimacy of the taxes they imposed on his Fulani (Fulbe) brethren. www.bookrags.com /biography-uthman-don-fodio   (793 words)

MAR Data Chronology for Ibo in Nigeria The Hausa, Kanuri and Ibos feared that despite Lagos' calm, a new wave of unrest could explode if Babangida reneged on his promise to relinquish power. Eighty people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the Karimjo and Fulani in eastern Nigeria. More than 400 Karimjo houses have been razed and over 6000 people have fled their homes in the violence which was reportedly started by an attempted rape of a Karimjo woman by a Fulani man. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=47503   (7131 words)

ecoi.net - Focus countries » Nigeria » Ethnicity (Hausa and Fulani) It was not until the early 1800s that the Fulani began to put pressure on the Hausa to undergo large scale conversion. 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. Indigenous people blame some of the attacks on Fulani herdsmen who, they say, have been seeking to avenge the death of one of their chiefs in the September Jos conflict. www.ecoi.net /doc/en/NG/content/7/11674-12272   (3696 words)

BNW News: Biafra Nigeria World News: Pride of Africa: Biafra NigeriaWorld is the Authority on BiafraNigeria:: the home of the BNW Great Forum, Biafra nigeriamasterweb, All About Biafra Nigeria, BiafraNigeriaWorld Before now, only the Hausa/Fulani who had already dominated the leadership of the state could be found as Emirs, Sarkis (Chiefs) or District Heads as monarchs, while the proper indigenes of Adamawa were made followers even as some of them were made to become Muslims to enjoy privileges. The presence of the Fulanis following the Jihad, enabled them to dominate the leadership of pockets of other ethnic groups who are regarded as indigenes of the state due to their literacy in Islamic culture, been able to write in Arabic language, though they constitute minority in numerical strength. At the moment, the deputy-governor of the state, Alhaji Bello Tukur is a Fulani from the minority tribe. news.biafranigeriaworld.com /archive/2004/aug/15/008.html   (696 words)

selective_modernitieshausafulani_women_hajj_and_moral_capital_040803010004.doc I am a Muslim Fulani woman from Nigeria and often when I go to the market, to my office, which is situated in a five-story office complex and to other places of public interaction, I am addressed as Hajiya. Callaway, B.J. (1987) “Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change” New York: Syracuse University Press Coles, C. Mack, B. (1991) “Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century” Wisconsin: Wisconsin University Press Cooper, M.B. (1997) “Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989.-(Social History of Africa)). Cooper, M.B. (2001) “The Strength in a Song: Muslim Personhood, Audible Capital, and Hausa Women’s Performance of the Hajj” pp. www.siyanda.org /docs/selective_modernitieshausafulani_women_hajj_and_moral_capital_040803010004.doc   (5750 words)

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BBC News AFRICA Muslim militia hits Nigerian village Police said that the attack appeared to be in reprisal for the killings last September of hundreds of Hausas and Fulanis in the nearby city of Jos. Fulanis and Hausas - two of Nigeria's largest ethnic groups - make up a large proportion of the Muslims. Since Olusegun Obasanjo became president in 1999, ending a long period of military rule, Nigeria has been rocked by many ethnic and religious clashes. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/1738587.stm   (405 words)

Politics : Anambrisation of Plateau State? The problem, however, is that the differences in culture and faith, as well as the perceived domineering tendencies of the Hausa – Fulani elements, made the original inhabitants of the land wary and determined to maintain an indigene/settler dichotomy. It was not until recent years that the problem appeared to have been sorted out, with the local people granted more traditional autonomy and the Hausa – Fulani refugees resettled in the city. The two sides raided one another until a final push led to the complete flushing of the Hausa – Fulani residents of Yelwa and other settlements in the State early this year. www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/p311112004.html   (1432 words)

MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: MORE ON LANGUAGES (by Boomie O.) DON'T PLAN TO DO Each section has the words in Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa, but words are not enunciated, and except for Yoruba where I use italics to indicate that there is a dot under the letter, the Hausa and Ibo are typed from a regular keyboard. And there have been some controversies in the past as to which one is the ''authentic'' Hausa language or the one that should be officially accepted. For instance, you have the Hausa language variation of Kaduna and the one from Kano. www.motherlandnigeria.com /more_language.html   (201 words)

KU Hausa Courses HAUS 420 Advanced Hausa II (3) H. Aspects of Hausa literature are examined at an advanced level, including differences between oral and written narrative, oral and poetic modes, varieties of registers as determined by gender and socio-economic level, and the effect of medium on literary style. Texts used include newspapers and other Hausa publications not expressly for language learners, and spoken material intended for native speakers is introduced. A survey of the indigenous languages of Africa from a linguistic perspective, covering the main language families and their geographic distribution, and focusing on the features and structure of the more widely spoken and representative languages in each family (e.g. www.ku.edu /~hausa/courses   (396 words)

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