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Hausa (Nigeria, Niger). Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Doctorate in African Business)

Hausa, are a people of Northern Nigeria and Southern Niger (Trade and Business in West Africa)

1. Estimated Hausa population:
   1. Nigeria (Maiduguri): 42 million people (22% of the Nigerian population)
   2. Niger (Agadez, Diffa, Maradi, Tillabéri, Zinder): 9 million people (55% of the Nigerien population)
   3. In Benin, Ghana and Cameroon there are Hausa communities
   4. Important Hausa Diaspora in Lagos, Accra (Ghana) and Cotonou (Benin)
2. Main religion: Sunni Islam
   1. Hausa recognises the Sharia law
   2. XII Century: Islam adoption
   3. 1500: implementation of Arabic writing. The Chronicle of Kano
   4. Traditional African religions (Maguzawa)
3. Historically, Hausa have been related to the Slave Trade
4. Irredentist movement for the reunification of Hausa from Nigeria and Niger in a single nation
5. Kano and Daura are the Hausa cultural centres
6. Hausa are culturally related to Fula, Songhai, Mande (Mandinka) and Tuareg
   1. 1810: invasion of Kano by the Fula
7. Origin of Hausa: Nubia (500 of our era)

The Nigerian businessmen Abdulsamad Rabiu and Alhaji Aliko Dangote are Hausa.

Hausa Students  from Nigeria and Niger

1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
2. Doctorate in African Business

More information: Trade and Business in Nigeria, at EENI Global Business School Website.

Hausa language

1. Hausa is the spoken language of the Hausa people
   1. Hausa belongs to the Chadic languages group (Afro-asiatic languages)
2. 27 million people speak Hausa language
   1. Hausa language has more Hausa speakers as mother tongue than any other African language.
   2. 50 million people speak Hausa as second language
3. Hausa language is a lingua franca in the region

EENI Principle of Racial Harmony

Hausas Haoussas Hauçás

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