Hausa people in Africa wear a special turban called rawani as a symbol of royalty and prestige. Rawani, which means turban in the Hausa language, is respected by the community living in West African ...

Creating Hausa-inspired patterns on clay tiles is a unique way to blend art with culture. The intricate designs of Hausa ...

A community leader, Chief Bawa Muhammed, has called for calm, vigilance, and cooperation among residents of Auchi following ...

A prominent Hausa leader has urged global dialogue for peace amid rising fuel prices in Nigeria. He appealed to President ...

Hausa language is a Chadic language, which is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family and is spoken as a first language by no fewer than 35 million people, and a second language by at least 41 ...

Historians doubt that Bayajida existed, but the legend of Bayajida remains powerful. It refers to him as the man whose lineage founded the Hausa nation. The legend is re-enacted yearly in Daura, ...

The Global Coordinator of the World Hausa Day celebration, Abdulbaqi Jari, has called on the Economic Community of West African States to adopt Hausa as a language for commerce and social interaction ...

A fifth group, the Ijaw, has been growing in population and influence and currently makes up another 10 percent. Muslim Hausa and Fulani are the predominant ethnic groups in Nigeria's northern region.

The Hausa traditional marriage is mostly based on Islamic rites, and not as time consuming or expensive like the Igbo and Yoruba traditional marriage ceremonies. However, the process leading up to the ...

Alami, S., El Mabrak, A., Safi-Eddine, Z., Abdoulaye, M., Serhier, Z. and Bourzgui, F. (2026) Cephalometric Standards in Two ...

There are a number of theories and stories connected with the Hausa people, who today live in northern Nigeria, parts of Ghana, Niger and Togo. Some centre on the idea of migration. For example, there ...