Tribe Hausa

The country is inhabited by over 500 ethnic groups, of which the three largest are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.

Other traders came from Kanem, Bornu, and the Hausa city states and moved into Gonja, Dagomba, and other parts of the Volta region.

He must decide whether he is a Muslim first, then a member of his tribe, say, Hausa, and then of his nation, say, Nigeria.

Since political independence in 1960, politics has revolved round Nigeria s major ethnic groups the Igbo and Yoruba in the south, and the Hausa and Fulani in the north.

With the assistance of the department of technical services as well as NGOs and other actors working in rural areas, the Adult Literacy and Education Department has been organizing annual literacy campaigns since 1970 in five national languages, namely Hausa, Zarma, Kanuri, Fulfulde and Tamajaq.

It's getting as close as possible to the thought experiment of finding two families both of whom live in Brussels who are identical on every single one of these dimensions, but one of whom speaks Flemish and one of whom speaks French or two families that live in a rural district in Nigeria, one of whom speaks Hausa and one of whom speaks Igbo.

Young girls are often married to older men without their consent marital violence, which can take the form of moral violence by a man against his wife (for example, repudiation) or physical violence (for example, assault and battery), as some Islamic customs (for example, among the Hausa, Zarma and Kanouri peoples) tolerate wife beating confinement, which is a way of violating a woman's freedom to leave the conjugal home.