The Hausa People are a Native Ethnic Group in West & Central Africa | Africa in 30 seconds

The Hausa are a native ethnic group in West and Central Africa. They speak the Hausa language, which is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language family. Legend has it that Bayajidda (a legendary figure who is said to have migrated from Baghdad in the Middle East to West Africa) married the local queen of Daura and became the progenitor of the ruling dynasty. From Daura, the Hausa people gradually spread across the region, establishing city-states such as Kano, Katsina, Zazzau (Zaria), and Gobir. These city-states eventually formed the basis of the Hausa Bakwai (Hausa Seven True States) Confederacy, which was a loose federation of Hausa-speaking states. The Hausa are a diverse but culturally homogeneous people based primarily in the Sahelian and the sparse savanna areas of southern Niger and northern Nigeria respectively. Numbering around 76 million people with significant indigenized populations in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Chad. Sudan, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Togo, Ghana, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Senegal and the Gambia. This is Africa in 30 seconds. Subscribe. And see you again tomorrow.

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