HAUSA

or Haussaboth: houˈsə, –sä, black African ethnic group, numbering about 23 million, chiefly in N Nigeria and S Niger. The Hausa are almost exclusively Muslim and practice agriculture. Their widespread trading activities have contributed to making their language a lingua franca in much of W Africa. In earlier times the Hausa were organized in the Hausa States. Long the vassals of Bornu, the states were conquered by the Songhay in 1513 and by the Fulani in the early 19th cent. In colonial Nigeria the traditional Hausa-Fulani social and political structure was largely maintained under the British policy of indirect rule. The Hausa remain a major force in Nigerian politics.

See I. Madauci, Hausa Customs (1968); P. Hill, Rural Hausa (1972) and Population, Property and Poverty (1977); W. S. Miles, Elections in Nigeria (1988).

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books on: Hausa  - 1250 results

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1.
Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger
Book by William F. S. Miles; Cornell University Press, 1994
Subjects: Assimilation (Sociology)--Niger, Assimilation (Sociology)--Nigeria, Hausa (African People)--Ethnic Identity, Hausa (African People)--Government Relations, Niger--Colonial Influence, Nigeria--Colonial Influence
...the emerging if unformalized gratuitousness of the Hausa Bakwai criterion for Hausaness. 3 Barkow 1976:861...melting-pot analogy to describe the phenomenon of Hausa assimilation: " Hausa . . . are rather like Americans in that they have...
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Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community
Book by Deborah Pellow; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Accra (Ghana)--History, Accra (Ghana)--Social Conditions, Hausa (African People)--Ghana--Accra--Social Conditions, Human Territoriality--Ghana--Accra, Muslims--Ghana--Accra--Social Conditions, Spatial Behavior--Ghana--Accra
...recruited into the so-called Hausa forces were not Hausa, as even today any man from the...Nigeria and Ghana is often called a Hausa (cited in Dakubu 1997:135...Zenuwah, who had enlisted in Glovers Hausas in 1858, was a Kanuri from Bornu...
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Government in Zazzau, 1800-1950
Book by M. G. Smith; Oxford University Press, 1960
Subjects: Hausa (African People), Zaria (Nigeria)--Politics And Government
...economic relationships are direct and dyadic. Many Hausa are employed as house staff by Europeans, and many...segmental and specific. Many Europeans cannot speak fluent Hausa, and few Hausa can speak fluent English. 1 Mutual ignorance or misunderstanding...
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The Influence of Islam on a Sudanese Religion
Book by Joseph Greenberg; J. J. Augustin Publisher, 1947
Subjects: Hausa (African People)--Religion, Islam--Influence
...to the time of the Moroccan conquest the Hausa had only been in contact with North Africa...Niger region, trade moved east and the Hausa states entered a period of great prosperity...came in numbers to Gobir, in northwestern Hausa country, and then to Kano and Katsina...
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Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria: A Study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Traditon
Book by Ousmane Kane; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Islam And Politics--Nigeria, Islam--Nigeria--Societies, Etc, Nigeria--Politics And Government--1984-, Sufis--Nigeria--Political Activity
gandu field (Hausa) gardi pl. gardawa advanced Koranic student who may teach younger students (Hausa) gari pl. garuruwa town(s) (Hausa) gunduma pl. gundumomi largest territorial unit in the precolo- nial Kano emirate (Hausa) hadra...
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journal articles on: Hausa  - 389 results

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Islamic-hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: the Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa
Journal article by Novian Whitsitt; African Studies Review, Vol. 46, 2003
Subjects: Education, Feminism, Funtuwa, Bilkisu Ahmed, Hausa Tribe, Kano Nigeria, Novels, Personal relationships, Social change, Social life & customs
Islamic-hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: the...Nigeria, a burgeoning corpus of contemporary Hausa popular literature has captured the attention arid concern of the entire Hausa community. The literature can be found in the...
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The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar
Journal article by Alan S. Kaye; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002
Subjects: The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar (Book)
The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar by Alan S. Kaye The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. By...grammarless." Although many grammatical treatises of Hausa--Chadics best-known member with about 35 million...
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Matan Bariki, 'Women of the Barracks' Muslim Hausa Women in an Urban Neighbourhood in Northern Nigeria
Journal article by Katja Werthmann; Africa, Vol. 72, 2002
Subjects: Barracks--Nigeria, Hausas--Social aspects, Nigeria--Social aspects, Police wives--Nigeria, Women, Muslim--Nigeria
...Matan bariki, women of the barracks Muslim Hausa women in an urban neighbourhood in northern...1970s there have been several studies of Hausa women in northern Nigerian cities (e...than villages. Quite a few studies of Hausa-speaking Muslim women have been conducted...
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Creating Modernities through Conversation Groups: the Everyday Worlds of Hausa Migrants in Niamey, Niger
Journal article by Scott M. Youngstedt; African Studies Review, Vol. 47, 2004
Subjects: Groups, Migration, Modernism, Niamey Niger, Social conditions & trends
...Conversation Groups: the Everyday Worlds of Hausa Migrants in Niamey, Niger by Scott M. Youngstedt THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES on how migrant Hausa men draw upon their street side him (conversation...they face in their diaspora communities, Hausa cherish the vibrant sociability, dignity...
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Hausa Dreams (Use of Dream Material to Explore the Multiethnic Dimension of Nigerian Society)
Journal article by William F. Miles; Anthropologica, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Cultural identity, Dreams, Nigeria
Hausa Dreams (Use of Dream Material to Explore...these dimensions than the Yorubas), the Hausa of northern Nigeria rank relatively low...the presenter returned to two neighbouring Hausa villages separated by the Niger - Nigeria...
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Letter from Ouagadougou
Magazine article by William F.S. Miles; The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, Winter 2006
...Baptiste, the embassy driver, "Is there a Hausa neighborhood in Ouaga?" I have been enchanted with the Hausa since living among them and studying their...the former French colony of Niger. Most Hausa are Moslem but they are an extroverted people...
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The Legacy of Yohanna Gowon
Magazine article by Musa A. B Gaiya; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 31, April 2007
Subjects: Christianity, Christians, Learning, Missionaries, Religion, Religious conversion, Religious missions
...Abraham.7 These two had learned enough Hausa to be able to teach in it. These young...European and African. Instruction was in Hausa, but students went out to preach in their...Gowons thus had to learn to read and speak Hausa. Hausa was becoming popular among Ngas...
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African Islamism, from Below
Magazine article by William Miles; World and I, Vol. 18, December 2003
Subjects: Islam and politics--History, Islam and politics--Niger, Islam and politics--Nigeria, Islam and politics--Social aspects, Islam--History, Islam--Niger, Islam--Nigeria, Islam--Social aspects, Niger--History, Niger--Political aspects, Niger--Social aspects, Nigeria--History, Nigeria--Political aspects, Nigeria--Social aspects
...I have been returning to the same two Hausa villages on either side of the Nigeria...they traveled among and traded with the Hausa people, who until then had practiced animism...what had been a loosely amalgamated set of Hausa kingdoms and fiefdoms. Although the Fulani...
4.
Nigeria's Metamorphosis
Magazine article by Ben Barber; World and I, Vol. 14, July 1999
Subjects: Abacha, Sani--Influence, Elections--Nigeria, Nigeria--Political aspects
...at the death of dictator Abacha, a member of the Hausa ethnic group, last June. (He reportedly succumbed...merchants speaking in the market were in fact ethnic Hausa of Kano, seat of the Hausa power that has dominated Nigerias army and administration...
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My Pilgrimage in Mission
Magazine article by Charles H. Kraft; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 22, October 1998
Subjects: Christianity, Missionaries, Spirituality
...Mubi, we were ready to begin learning the Hausa language. We were under pressure to learn...limited myself to teaching the leaders (in Hausa) and baptizing (required by the mission...dissertation was entitled "A Study of Hausa Syntax." The summer of 1961 saw us returning...
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'It Is the Year of Africa. Let's Support Them in Education'
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 7, 2005
...educated and able to read and write in Hausa and English. We recorded a story, played...their language from their knowledge of Hausa and English spellings. The theory behind...consistent way, much as Welsh does - and Hausa - and not like English! The Tera team...
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Support for the Powerful Wanes: Corrupt Military Exploits Ethnic Divisions to Justify Reign
Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, December 10, 1998
Subjects: Abacha, Sani
...Barber KANO, Nigeria - Muslim Hausa traders and craftsmen in the...divisions of the country - Muslim Hausas in the north, mainly Christian...results, presumably because the Hausa-dominated military, and the "Kaduna mafia" of influential Hausa leaders, could not stomach...
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Abacha's Successor Seen as Career Military Officer
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, June 9, 1998
Subjects: Abacha, Sani, Nigeria
...is a Muslim and a member of the northern Hausa tribe, like Gen. Abacha. His appointment...largest ethnic groups are the Yoruba and the Hausa, each accounting for about 20 percent...smarted under the rule of the northern Hausa and Fulani. It was after a Yoruba, Moshood...
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Rare Welsh Tongue-Twister Turns Up in a Remote Corner of Nigeria
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 6, 2005
...explained that the Tera people have used the dominant Hausa language, but he now hopes to get the next generation...ways they are saying, although they are speaking Hausa, they are not Hausa, and there are parallels with people who may not...
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They're Busy Airing the Truth
Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, May 4, 1998
Subjects: Radio Liberty
...Dandy" signaling the nightly Voice of America news broadcast in Hausa. Around the world, 83 million other people tune their radios...broadcasting is a broad recognition of that principle. "Broadcasts in Hausa show America has an interest in peace among people - an interest...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hausa  - 19 results

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Hausa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HAUSA or Haussa both: hou s , sa, black African...chiefly in N Nigeria and S Niger. The Hausa are almost exclusively Muslim and practice...in much of W Africa. In earlier times the Hausa were organized in the Hausa States. Long...
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Hausa Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HAUSA LANGUAGE member of the Chadic group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family of languages. See Afroasiatic languages...
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Afroasiatic Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...central Africa. Its most important tongue is Hausa, a West Chadic language native to 25 million...Cameroon, Togo, and Benin. In addition, Hausa is widely used as a lingua franca in W Africa. Written Hausa has long employed an alphabet based on that...
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Niger , Country, Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Zinder . The main ethnic groups are the Hausa , the Songhai and Djerma (Zarma), the...countrys official language is French; Hausa, Djerma, and other indigenous languages...largely of a subsistence type). The Hausa, Kanuri, and Songhai are mainly sedentary...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...groups. The largest of these groups are the Hausa and Fulani in the north, the Yoruba in...Beginning in the 11th cent. seven independent Hausa city-states were founded in N Nigeria...the leading power in N Nigeria, and the Hausa states regained their autonomy. In southwest...
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