The kakaki is a three to four metre long metal trumpet used in Hausa people Hausa traditional ceremonial music. Kakaki is the name used in Chad , Burkina Faso , Niger , and Nigeria . The instrument is also known as waza in Chad and Sudan , and malakat in Ethiopia . The kakaki originally comes from Songhai people Songhai cavalry . Its sound is associated with royalty and it is only played at events at the palace of the king or sultan in Hausa societies. It is used as part of the sara , a weekly statement of power and authority. Kakaki are exclusively played by men. See also Hausa music References http www.cp pc.ca english chad arts.html Chad Arts and Literature http web.archive.org web 20050904125208 http www.bbc.co.uk music features africa winskakaki.shtml BBC article at Internet Archive http www.africanchorus.org Voam Voam624.htm The Orchestra in the African Context Category Brass instruments Category West African musical instruments Category Hausa music Category Nigerien musical instruments Category Nigerian musical instruments musical instrument stub Africa music stub da Kakaki de Kakaki es Kakaki fr Kakaki it Kakaki pt Kakaki fi Kakaki ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Arabic alphabet Unicode B big lang sd big is an additional letter of the Arabic script , derived from Unicode b big lang ar big with an additional dot diacritic dot . It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent a the sound IPAblink when writing Hausa language Hausa , Saraiki language Saraiki and Sindhi language Sindhi in the Arabic script. The same sound may also be written simply as b in Hausa, undifferentiated from IPAblink b . class wikitable style text align center colspan 4 Contextual forms Final Medial Initial Isolated style line height 180 padding 10px big lang sd big big lang sd big big lang sd big big lang sd big Both Hausa and Sindhi are also written in scripts besides Arabic. The sound represented by Unicode b is written Unicode in Hausa s Latin alphabet Latin orthography , and written Unicode lang hi in Saraiki and Sindhi s Devanagari orthography. DEFAULTSORT B E Category Arabic letters Writingsystem stub de Be Arabischer Buchstabe ja ... more details
the Southern Nigeria south . The people are largely Islam Muslim , and many are Hausa people Hausa ... implement Sharia in Nigeria Sharia . History Hausa States Main Hausa States The Hausa States or Hausa ... Caliphate warned the Hausa rulers that if they didn t separate religion from paganism, a war would be waged against them. By failure to cleanse Islam from the pagan practices, the Hausa state was finally .... Arrival of the Hausa Between 500 CE and 700 CE Hausa people, who had been slowly moving west ... 800 BCE and 200 CE, the Hausa were able to emerge as the new power in the region. Closely linked with the Kanuri people of Kanem Bornu Lake Chad , the Hausa aristocracy adopted Islam in the 11th century CE. By the 12th century CE the Hausa were becoming one of Africa s major powers. The architecture of the Hausa is perhaps one of the least known but most beautiful of the medieval age. Many of their early ... symbols designed into the facade. By 1500 CE the Hausa utilized a modified Arabic script known as Ajami script Ajami to record their own language the Hausa compiled several written histories, the most popular being the Kano Chronicle. The Fourteen Kingdoms The Hausa Kingdoms emerged in the 13th ... alliances, the Hausa city states functioned independently. Rivalries generally inhibited the formation of one centralized authority. There were fourteen Hausa Kingdoms The Hausa Seven and the Bastard Seven The Hausa Kingdoms began as seven states with a shared mythology with its founders being the sons of a Queen. They are known as the Hausa Bakwai meaning Hausa Seven . The states included Daura ... c. 1100 1805 The growth and conquest of the Hausa Bakwai resulted in the founding of additional states with rulers tracing their lineage to a concubine of the Hausa founding father, Bayajidda . Thus ... and institutions of the Hausa Bakwai but were considered unsanctioned or copy cat kingdoms by non Hausa people. These states include Zamfara State Zamfara Kebbi Kingdom Kebbi Yauri Emirate Yauri ... more details
Image Sokoto caliphate.png thumb The Sokoto Caliphate Fulani Empire in the 19th century, established after Fulani War 300px The Fulani War of 1804 1810, also known as the Fulani Jihad or Jihad of Usman dan Fodio , was a military conquest in present day Nigeria and Cameroon . Expelled from Gobir by his former student Yunfa in 1802, the Islam ic reformer Usman dan Fodio assembled a Fula people Fulani army to lead in jihad against the Hausa people Hausa Hausa Kingdoms kingdoms of the north. Realizing the threat that Usman s forces posed, Yunfa assembled the other Hausa rulers to oppose him. The Hausa rulers dealt the jihadists a number of initial setbacks, most notably at the Battle of Tsuntua December 1804 , in which Usman lost more than 2,000 men. Two hundred are said to have known the Koran by heart. The following year, however, Usman s forces seized Kebbi Emirate Kebbi and established a permanent base at Gwandu . Building on popular discontent caused in part by famine and by Hausa taxation, the jihadists continued to advance, taking the Gobir s capital Alkalawa in 1808 and killing Yunfa. Usman united the conquered lands under his Fulani Empire . The success of the jihad inspired a number of later West Africa n jihadists, including Massina Empire founder Seku Amadu , Toucouleur Empire founder Umar Tall , Wassoulou Empire founder Samori Samori Ture , and Adamawa Emirate founder Modibo Adama . References cite encyclopedia year title Usman dan Fodio encyclopedia Encyclop dia Britannica Online publisher Encyclop dia Britannica, Inc. Encyclop dia Britannica, Inc location Chicago id See also Fula jihads Fulani jihads History of Nigeria Category 1800s conflicts Category Conflicts in 1810 Category Sokoto Caliphate Category Wars involving the states and peoples of Africa Category Wars involving Cameroon Category Wars involving Nigeria Category 19th century in Africa no Fulanikrigen ru de Dschihad der Fulbe ... more details
The term Ajami lang ar transl ar DIN a am , or Ajamiyya lang ar transl ar DIN a amiyyah , which comes from the Arabic root for foreign or stranger, has been applied to Arabic script Arabic alphabets used for writing African languages . Since African languages involve phonetic sounds and systems different from the Arabic language , there have often been adaptations of the Arabic script to transcribe them a process not unlike what has been done with the Arabic script in non Arabic speaking countries of the Middle East , and with the Latin script in Africa or with the Vietnamese alphabet . http www.saudiaramcoworld.com issue 201105 from.africa.in.ajami.htm The West African Hausa language Hausa is an example of a language written using Ajami, especially during the pre colonial period when Qur anic schools taught Muslim children Arabic, and by extension, Ajami. When Western colonizers adopted boko alphabet a Latin orthography for Hausa , Ajami went into decline, and today is employed less frequently than the Latin standard orthography. However, Hausa Ajami is still in widespread use, especially in Islamic circles. See also Hausa language Wolofal script Aljamiado Jawi script Perso Arabic script External references http www.panafril10n.org wikidoc pmwiki.php PanAfrLoc ArabicScript PanAfrican L10n page on Arabic script and Ajami http www.omniglot.com writing hausa.htm Omniglot page on Hausa Ajami Script Category Arabic alphabets Category Writing systems of Africa writingsystem stub ar de Adschami Schrift ha Ajami pt Escrita ajami ... more details
dablink This article is about the former Gobir ruler. For other persons with this name, see Yakubu . Unreferenced date August 2009 Orphan date February 2009 Yakubu was ruler of the Hausa people Hausa city state of Gobir in what is now northern Nigeria from 1795 to 1801. Succeeding Bawa , Yakubu waged a number of military campaigns. His reign is also noted for a deterioration of relations between the Hausa elite of Gobir and Fula people Fulani Islam ic reformer Usman dan Fodio , who would soon oppose them in the Fulani War . Yakubu was killed in 1801 in an attempt to storm the Zamfara fortress of Kiyawa . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Yakubu ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Ruler of Gobir DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Yakubu Category History of Nigeria Nigeria bio stub noble stub ... more details
Kumbari dan Sharefa reigned 1731 1743 was a Hausa people Hausa King of Kano King Sarkin of Kano . He succeeded Mohammed Sharef and is remembered for his high taxation on the Kurmi Market . ref cite book last Ajayi first J. F. Ade coauthors Michael Crowder and R.A. Adeleye, chapter author title The History of West Africa edition 2 year 1976 publisher Columbia University Press location isbn 0231041039 oclc doi id pages 596 chapter Hausa land and Borno 1600 1800 quote His successor, Kumbari, is said to have almost killed Kurmi market by his excessive taxation. He taxed even the learned men mallams and it was on account of his extortions that there were disturbances in Kano, leading to the departure of Arabs from the city for Katsina. ref References references Category Kano Category 18th century African people nigeria bio stub africa royal stub ... more details
Baba of Karo is a 1954 book ref name a http books.google.co.uk books?id scgOAAAAQAAJ&pg PA39&lpg PA39&dq mary smith anthropologist&source bl&ots AP214e1JcH&sig tbCMOVnEK 6gouU1cRFIc2u55io&hl en&ei 7kU2Sq37LNqrjAep57z9CQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1 PPA40,M1 ref by the anthropologist Mary Felice Smith Mary F. Smith . The book is an anthropological record of the Hausa people , partly compiled from an oral account given by Baba 1877 1951 , the daughter of a Hausa farmer and Koranic teacher, and translated by Smith. ref name b http yalepress.yale.edu yupbooks book.asp?isbn 9780300027419 ref Smith s husband, the anthropologist M. G. Smith , contributed an explanation of the Hausa s cultural context. ref name a The 1981 reissue of Baba of Karo contains a foreword by Hilda Kuper . ref name b References reflist sociology book stub Category 1954 books Category Sociology books ... more details
Groundnut can mean Seeds that ripen underground, of the following plants, all in the Faboideae subfamily of the legume s Arachis villosulicarpa Bambara groundnut Macrotyloma geocarpum Hausa groundnut Peanut Roots and tubers Apios americana Conopodium majus Dwarf ginseng See also Earthnut disambiguation Tanganyika groundnut scheme disambig fr Noix de terre ... more details
File K with hook uppercase and lowercase.svg thumb Traditional uppercase and lowercase K with hook. File K with hook uppercase wrong and right.svg thumb Wrong and preferred uppercase K with hook File K with hook lowercase wrong and right.svg thumb Wrong and preferred lowercase K with hook unicode Lower case minuscule unicode is a letter of the Latin alphabet , used in Hausa language Hausa to represent an ejective IPAblink k . It was formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless velar implosive currently IPA . It was withdrawn in 1993. See also Other hooked letters unicode unicode unicode unicode unicode unicode unicode Alphabets with this letter African reference alphabet Pan Nigerian Alphabet Alphabets for the following specific languages Hausa language Hausa External links http www.unicode.org charts PDF U0180.pdf Latin Extended B Range 0180 024F Unicode code chart latin alphabet DEFAULTSORT K hook Category Uncommon Latin letters Category Phonetic transcription symbols Category Specific letter diacritic combinations br lizherenn de fr no pl zh ... more details
Takoba also takuba or takouba is the sword that is used across the western Sahel and among ethnic groups such as the Tuareg people Tuareg , the Hausa people Hausa , the Fulani . It usually measures about one meter. Takoba blades can exhibit several notable features, including three or more hand ground Fuller weapon fuller grooves and a rounded point. The word, takoba , is derived from Hausa takobi ref http www.archive.org stream dictionaryofhaus02robiuoft dictionaryofhaus02robiuoft djvu.txt ref , but is also used among other peoples Tuareg and the Fulani. Takoba were also commonly manufactured in Hausa city states such as Kano . Since the Tuareg have an aversion to touching iron, the takoba s handle, like many iron implements, is covered in bronze or other material. There is much debate about whether the takoba was used only by the im a or warrior class or whether it could be borne by vassals. As with most crafted items used by the Tuareg, takoba are crafted by the nh d n singular nh d caste, who are of a different ethnicity from the im a and speak T net , a secret language. The im a believe that the nh d n have magical powers, which some theorize to be associated with their traditional roles as metalworkers and to the im a aversion to both metalworking and touching iron. References references External links http www.vikingsword.com ethsword takouba http takouba.org Category Blade weapons Category African swords Category Tuareg berber stub weapon stub Swords by region navbox ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A kontigi or kuntigi is a one or two stringed stringed lute used in Nigeria n Hausa music . It is also found among Islamized peoples throughout West Africa see Xalam . The best known player is Dan Maraya . Category Nigerian musical instruments String instrument stub es Kontigi pt Kontigi ... more details
Azna may refer to Azna County , a county in Lorestan Province in Iran Azna, Lorestan , the capital of Azna County, Iran Azna, Dorud , a village in Lorestan Province, Iran Azna Rural District , a rural district in Lorestan Province, Iran Azna Mehalmak , a village in Lorestan Province, Iran Azna people , the animist Hausa people geodis ... more details
. Modern Hausa English Dictionary Sabon Kamus Na Hausa Zuwa Turanci. Ibadan, Nigeria Oxford University .... The Hausa Language An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. New Haven Yale University Press. 2001. With Martha ... and Hausa Linguistics Selected Papers of Paul Newman, with Commentaries , edited by Philip J. Jaggar and H. Ekkehard Wolff. K ln Rudiger K ppe Verlag. 2004. Klingenheben s Law in Hausa. K ln Rudiger K ppe Verlag. 2007. A Hausa English Dictionary. New Haven Yale University Press. External links http ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date November 2006 Swalaba is a neighborhood in Ghana s capital city Accra . It is located in the city center between Korle Woko and Jamestown, Ghana Jamestown . Its population is mainly from the Ga people Ga tribal group, but houses also members of Hausa people Hausa , Ewe people Ewe , and Akan ethnic group Akan . Its narrow streets called longo longo makes Swalaba resemble a labyrinth and it is known to be difficult to get around for anyone not familiar with the area. The people of Swalaba are viewed as friendly, showing hospitality. Coord missing Ghana Category Populated places in Ghana Category Accra Ghana geo stub ... more details
about the Islamic archangel of death Azrael the death metal band Azrail band File Mohammed 4Engel.jpg thumb right 220px A depiction of Muhammad advancing on Mecca from Siyer i Nebi , a 16th century Ottoman manuscript. The angels Gabriel , Michael , Israfil and Azrail , are also shown. Azrail is the death deity in Hausa people Hausa mythology , responsible for bringing early human death into the world. References cite author Arthur Cotterell url http library.thinkquest.org C005854 text africa.htm title A Dictionary of World Mythology publisher Oxford University Press cite web author Chas Saunders url http www.godchecker.com pantheon african mythology.php?deity AZRAIL title Azrail publisher Godchecker Category African mythology Category Death deity africa myth stub http www.worldturkey.com.tr ca Azrail ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Degel is a town in northern Nigeria . Once a part of the Hausa people Hausa city state of Gobir , Degel is particularly noted for being the home of Fula people Fulani Islam ic reformer Usman dan Fodio from 1774 to 1804. Dan Fodio built a large following in the area until, fearing his growing power, Yunfa of Gobir ordered him and his followers into exile, triggering the Fulani War . Coord missing Nigeria Category Populated places in Sokoto State Sokoto geo stub ... more details
The following is a list of rulers of Kano , a city and emirate in northern Nigeria . Once the Hausa people Hausa Kingdom of Kano , it was conquered by Fula people Fulani Usman dan Fodio in 1805, who installed a Fulani Kano Emirate Emir of Kano in place of the old kings. Housa kings Hausa rulers of Kano under independent Habe Dynasty Bagauda ruled 999 1063 Warisi ruled 1063 1095 Gajemasu ruled 1095 1134 Nawata ruled 1134 1136 Yusa ruled 1136 1194 Naguji ruled 1194 1247 Gugwa ruled 1247 1290 Shekarau ruled 1290 1307 Tsamiya ruled 1307 1343 Usman Zamnagawa ruled 1343 1349 Yaji I ruled 1349 1385 Bugaya ruled 1385 1390 Kanajeji ruled 1390 1410 Hausa vassals Hausa rulers of Kano under Bornu Empire Bornu vassalage Umaru ruled 1410 1421 Daud Kano Daud ruled 1421 1438 Abdullah Burja ruled 1438 1452 Dakauta ruled 1452 Atuma ruled 1452 Yaqub emir Yaqub ruled 1452 1463 Muhammad Rumfa ruled 1463 1499 Abdullah Kano Abdullah ruled 1499 1509 Has Kano been under Borno Vassalage? Ask Dr Bala Usman. Hausa kings Hausa rulers of Kano under Habe Dynasty after independence from Bornu Muhammad Kisoki ruled 1509 1565 Yakufu ruled 1565 Daud Abasama I ruled 1565 Abu Bakr Kado ruled 1565 1573 Muhammad Shashere ruled 1573 1582 Muhammad Zaki emir Muhammad Zaki ruled 1582 1618 Muhammad Nazaki ruled 1618 1623 Kutumbi ruled 1623 1648 al Hajj emir al Hajj ruled 1648 1649 Shekarau emir ruled 1649 1651 Muhammad Kukuna ruled 1651 1652 Soyaki ruled 1652 Muhammad Kukuna restored ruled 1652 1660 Bawa emir Bawa ruled 1660 1670 Dadi emir Dadi ruled 1670 1703 Muhammad Sharif Kano Muhammad Sharif ruled 1703 1731 Kumbari ruled 1731 1743 al Hajj Kabe ruled 1743 1753 Yaji II ruled 1753 1768 Baba Zaki ruled 1768 1776 Daud Abasama II ruled 1776 1781 Muhammad al Walid ruled 1781 1805 Fulani emirs Fulani emirs of Kano under Fulani Empire Sokoto vassalage Suleiman emir ruled 1805 1819 Ibrahim emir Ibrahim ruled 1819 1846 ... Muhammad Inuwa ruled 1963 Ado Bayero ruled 1963 current See also Hausa Kingdoms History of Nigeria ... more details
Sultan Nafata of Gobir r.1797 98 , one of a series of rulers of the small Hausa people Hausa state, today in northern Nigeria. Best remembered for his opposition to Fula people Fulani Islam ic reformer Usman dan Fodio , who later led a popular uprising against the Gobir rulers, and established the Sokoto Caliphate . See also Gobir External links http www.worldstatesmen.org Nigeria native.html List of rulers of Gobir http www.diafrica.org nigeriaop Vishigh phd3.htm Igba Rumun Vishigh. CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN DIALOGUE NORTHWEST NIGERIA, 1960 1990. University of Jos, Nigeria 1997 . Category History of Nigeria ... more details
Infobox language name Kyenga nativename Tyenga region Nigeria , Benin speakers 5,000 date 1995 ethnicity familycolor Niger Congo fam1 Niger Congo languages Niger Congo ? fam2 Mande languages Mande fam3 Eastern fam4 Bisa Busa fam5 Samo Busa fam6 Busa languages fam7 Shanga Tyenga iso3 tye Kyenga also spelled Tyenga , Tienga, Tyanga, Kenga , is a Mande languages Mande language of Nigeria and Benin . Usage is declining, with speakers shifting to Hausa language Hausa in Nigeria and Dendi language Dendi in Benin. Category Mande languages nc lang stub sw Kikyenga ... more details
Infobox language name Berom nativename Birom states Nigeria region Plateau State speakers 300,000 date 1993 ethnicity Berom people familycolor Niger Congo fam2 Atlantic Congo languages Atlantic Congo fam3 Plateau languages Plateau fam4 Beromic languages Beromic iso3 bom Berom Birom is a Plateau language of Nigeria. Although locally numerically important, the Berom people Berom are shifting to Hausa language Hausa . The small Cen and Nincut dialects may be separate languages. Category Plateau languages br Beromeg de Berom hr Berom jezik sw Kiberom pms Lenga Berom ... more details
Infobox language name Gbiri Niragu nativename Gure Kahugu states Nigeria region Kaduna State speakers 25,000 date 2000 ethnicity familycolor Niger Congo fam2 Atlantic Congo languages Atlantic Congo fam3 Benue Congo languages Benue Congo fam4 Kainji languages Kainji fam5 East Kainji fam6 Northern Jos fam7 kauru languages Kauru iso3 grh dia1 Gbiri Gure dia2 Niragu Kahugu Gbiri Niragu , also known as Gure Kahugu , is a Kainji language of Nigeria . Speakers are shifting to Hausa language Hausa . Category Kainji languages nc lang stub sw Kigbiri Niragu pms Lenga Gbiri Niragu ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Anguwan Liman is one of the wards in the city of Zaria , Kaduna state , Nigeria . The ward is located northwards of the Emir of Zazzau s Zaria palace and the ancient central mosque in Zaria, built during the reign of Muhammad Kwasau by the famous Hausa people Hausa builder Muhammad Gwani. The ward is said to get its name because in the past it was home to religious scholars and Imam s of the central mosque in Zaria city. The inhabitants of Auguwan liman like other wards in Zaria city are Hausa language Hausa speakers who trace their origin to the Barebari Kanuri people Kanuri ruling class of Zazzau. Traditional title holders like the late Fagacin Zazzau Adamu, late Sa in Zazzau and late Chiroman Zazzau are said to come from babban gida gidan pampo in Anguwan liman which still serves as the main house where all traditional ceremonies like weddings and naming ceremonies take place. Recent traditional title holders Dallatun Zazzau Muhammadu and Sarkin Shannun Zazzau Alhaji Bello Umar were from Anguwan Liman. Prominent citizens of Anguwan Liman Among prominent citizens of Anguwan Liman are the late Usman Mairiga OFR who was the second indigenous editor of Gaskiya tafi Kwabo ref http www.newnigeriannews.com gaskiya index.htm Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo Bot generated title ref the first Hausa Newspaper in Northern Nigeria. Also from Anguwan Liman is Alhaji Ahmadu Rufa i Yusuf Manager a retired banker who is now the chair of Zazzau Advisory forum. Among top federal civil servants from Anguwan Liman is Alhaji Abdu Dikko Gidado a Director in the Federal Ministry of Information, Abuja Nigeria. References Reflist Kaduna geo stub coord missing Nigeria Category Populated places in Kaduna State ... more details
Infobox language name Gwandara familycolor Afro Asiatic states flag Nigeria speakers 30 thousand fam2 Chadic languages Chadic fam3 West Chadic languages West Chadic fam4 Hausa Gwandara languages Hausa Gwandara A.1 iso3 gwn Gwandara is a West Chadic languages West Chadic language , and the closest relative of Hausa language Hausa . Its several dialects are spoken in northern Nigeria by about 30,000 people. ref http www.ethnologue.com show country.asp?name ng ref The Nimbia dialect has a duodecimal numeral system, whereas other dialects, such as Karshi below, have decimal systems ref http web.archive.org web 20081005230737 http www3.aa.tufs.ac.jp P aflang TEXTS oct98 decimal.html ref class wikitable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ten eleven twelve Nimbia da bi ugu furu biyar shide bo o tager tanran gwom kwada tuni Karshi da bi uku huru biyari shida bakwe takushi tara gom gom sha da gom sha bi It is thought that Nimbia acquired its duodecimal system from the Plateau languages to the east. It is duodecimal even to powers of base twelve tuni mbe da 13 dozen and one gume bi 24 two dozen gume bi ni da 25 two dozen and one gume kwada ni kwada 143 eleven dozen and eleven wo 144 gross unit gross wo bi 288 two gross References reflist Category Hausa Language Category West Chadic languages Category Languages of Niger lang stub nl Gwandara ... more details
Arewa is a small pre colonial animist dominated state of the Dallol Maouri valley of Niger , known for the indigenous Maouri Mawri Hausa culture. Contemporary rule Arewa s traditional leadership contiunes a largely ceremonial reign in the 21st century, centered just north of the town of Dogondoutchi . ref http www.tarbiyya tatali.org ?Arewa s region Arewa s region , tarbiyya tatali.org. ref ref name Decalo1997 Cite book last Decalo first Samuel title Historical Dictionary of the Niger 3rd ed. publisher Scarecrow Press location Boston & Folkestone year 1997 isbn 0810831368 ref ref name Fuglestad1983 Cite book last Fuglestad first Finn title A History of Niger 1850 1960. African Studies series No. 41 publisher Cambridge University Press location New York London year 1983 isbn 9780521252683 ref Arewa, still home to a shrinking animist Hausa people Hausa community, hosts a yearly religious festival which draws both believers and foreign tourists. ref name Geels2006 Cite book last Geels first Jolijn title Niger publisher Bradt UK Globe Pequot Press location Chalfont St Peter, Bucks Guilford, CT year 2006 isbn 9781841621524 ref Other usage Arewa is simply a Hausa language term meaning northern or northerners . Derived from the Hausa word for North , Areoun , the wa the typical People of suffix, Arewa has several alternate meanings specific to the geography and politics of modern Nigeria, south of Niger. ref name Decalo1997 See also Arewa for the more general usages of the term in Nigeria. References Reflist Category Geography of Niger Category History of Niger ... more details
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