I was also enamoured of the singing and dancing in the Hausa films and the young people telling stories of ordinary life in northern Nigeria. There were plenty of scholars who had written about Hausa ...

However, this has begun to change in more progressive and urbanized Hausa-Fulani areas like Kano and Kaduna. Women in these communities, particularly in urban areas, have gained more access to ...

A communal clash between Hausa and Fulani groups claimed two lives in Agufa village, Miga Local Government Area of Jigawa ...

Marriage within the Hausa-Fulani communities is traditionally ... The Efik and Ibibio tribes in southern Nigeria, particularly in Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, are seeing a gradual increase ...

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 ...

Curiously, Muslim names, which should transcend, even neutralize, ethnicity, at least on the surface, can become the carriers ...

(The author spent two months this summer in Nigeria with Operation Crossroads Africa. He worked on the costruction of an open-air market in Ojo Village, twenty miles northwest of the capital of Lagos.

Yauri, one of Kebbi State's four emirates — a traditional administrative region with deep historical roots — was once an ...