Hausa

(noun)

One of the largest ethnic groups in Africa; a diverse but culturally homogeneous people based primarily in the Sahelian and Sudanian Daura area of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger, with significant numbers also living in parts of Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Togo, Ghana, Sudan, Gabon, and Senegal.

Related Terms

Examples of Hausa in the following topics:

  • Cloth Production in Bamum

    • The Bamum also imported indigo-dyed raffia-sewn cloth from the Hausa to be used as royal cloth.
    • This royal cloth was called Ntieya, and Hausa craftsmen were kept at palace workshops to supply nobles and teach the art of dyeing.

  • Forming a Slave Community

    • Many of the folk tales told by slaves have been traced by African scholars to Ghana, Senegal, and Mauritania, and to peoples such as the Ewe, Wolof, Hausa, Temne, Ashanti, and Igbo.

  • Slave Religion

    • Blassingame notes that many of the folk tales told by slaves have been traced by African scholars to Ghana, Senegal and Mauritania, and to peoples like the Ewe, Wolof, Hausa, Temne, Ashanti, and Igbo.

  • Forms of Resistance

    • Researchers note that many slave folktales have been traced by African scholars to Ghana, Senegal, and Mauritania, and to peoples such as the Ewe, Wolof, Hausa, Temne, Ashanti, and Igbo.

  • Ancient Africa

    • By the ninth century, a string of dynastic states, including the earliest Hausa states, stretched across the sub-Saharan savanna from the western regions to central Sudan.

  • Bornu Empire

    • By the late 18th century, Bornu rule extended only westward, into the land of the Hausa.