Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausa Kingdom or Hausaland, [1] was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihads. It was situated between the Niger River and Lake Chad (modern day northern Nigeria ).
The Bayajidda legend is widely known at the courts of the "Seven Hausa" kings where it is considered to correspond to the oldest known history of Hausaland. As already observed by the traveller Heinrich Barth the basic division between the Seven Hausa and the Seven Banza is used among the Songhay to distinguish between the northern hausa and ...
Muhammad Kanta Kotal declared Kebbi a kingdom and himself its first King. He built moats and trenches to make Kebbi as secure as possible. Some of these structures are still erect especially in the Kingdoms capital Surame. He then laid claim to former Songhai tributaries including Agadez and parts of Hausa land including Yauri. [8]
Find answers to the latest online sudoku and crossword puzzles that were published in USA TODAY Network's local newspapers. ... No. 5 Florida overcomes 14-point deficit to beat South Carolina, 70-69.
The most important source for the early history of Zazzau is a chronicle composed in the early 20th century from an oral tradition. It tells the traditional story of the foundation of the Hausa kingdoms by Bayajidda, an Arab adventurer from Baghdad, and gives a list of rulers along with the length of their reigns.
Founded by the Hausa in the 11th century, Gobir was one of the seven original kingdoms of Hausaland, and continued under Hausa rule for nearly 700 years. Its capital was the city of Alkalawa . In the early 19th century elements of the ruling dynasty fled north to what is today Niger from which a rival dynasty developed ruling as Sarkin Gobir ...
Daurama Palace. Daurama (pronunciation ⓘ) or Magajiya Daurama (pronunciation ⓘ) (fl. 9th century) was a ruler of the Hausa people who, as the Last Kabara of Daura, presided over the upheaval that saw a transference of power from the matriarchal royal system. [1]
The Hausa set up rival states nearby, and the ruler of one, Malam Musa, was made the new emir of Daura by the British in 1904, [1] While Fulani emirs reigned and established a rival kingdoms at Daure-Zango (Zango) and at Daure-Baure (Baure). Zango (founded in 1825) was the more prominent Hausa-Daura kingdom, and in 1903–04, after the British ...