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Hausa (People of Nigeria and Niger)
Hausa (Nigeria, Niger). Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Doctorate in African Business)
Hausa, are a people of Northern
Nigeria and Southern
Niger (West Africa)
- Estimated Hausa population:
- Nigeria (Maiduguri): 42 million people (22% of the Nigerian population)
- Niger (Agadez, Diffa, Maradi, Tillabéri, Zinder): 9 million people (55% of the Nigerien population)
- In Benin, Ghana
and Cameroon there are Hausa communities
- Important Hausa Diaspora in Lagos, Accra (Ghana) and Cotonou (Benin)
- Main religion: Sunni Islam
- Hausa recognises
the Sharia law
- XII Century: Islam adoption
- 1500: implementation of Arabic writing. The Chronicle of Kano
- Traditional African religions (Maguzawa)
- Historically, Hausa have been related to the Slave Trade
- Irredentist movement for the reunification of Hausa from Nigeria and Niger in a single nation
- Kano and Daura are the
Hausa
cultural centres
- Hausa are culturally related to Fula, Songhai,
Mande (Mandinka)
and Tuareg
- 1810: invasion of Kano by the Fula
- Origin of Hausa: Nubia (500 of our era)
The Nigerian businessmen Abdulsamad Rabiu and Alhaji Aliko Dangote
are Hausa.
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Hausa Students (Nigeria and Niger)
from Nigeria and Niger
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- Masters: Business in Africa, Transport in Africa, International Business, Foreign Trade
- Doctorates: African Business, World Trade, Global Logistics
More information: Business in Nigeria, at EENI Website.
Hausa language
- Hausa is the spoken language of the Hausa people
- Hausa belongs to
the Chadic languages
group (Afro-asiatic languages)
- 27 million people speak Hausa language
- Hausa language has more Hausa speakers as mother tongue than any other African language.
- 50 million people speak Hausa as second language
- Hausa language is a lingua franca in the region
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