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So you have never had of tanko,mudi,danladi,danjuma,magaji,lado,mati,indo,kande,mainasara,marka, etc although I agree many have switched to Islamic names... but name is not the only yardstick to know of a culture.. hausa language is strong which is one of the most yardstick to measure language.. dont you see many people are switching to hausa language from fulani,kanuri,taureg, etc what would you call them?

SIRANDREWS:
I don't know any Hausa name. all I've heard are Arabs. Care to list some traditional names?

When our culture have influenced alot be ut food,horse riding,architecture,lots of other ethnicities speak our language etc

Lol if hausa dont have culture then tell me the people that have

NiceHans:
Hausa hardly have any culture this days

what do you mean vy that? We have our distinct language, distinct architecture,we have our own festivals, distinct mode of dressing, distinct food, distinct music so what do you mean by we dont have culture? I don't know u understand what culture is

The Battle of Santolo was to be the first in a wave conquest soon to be initiated by the Sultanate of Kano, a wave that was to see Kanoan power culminating into a Hausa Empire in the reign Sultan Muhammadu Kisoki whom according to Sultan Muhammed Bello of sokoto, " was to rule the length and breath of hausa land, from the east to the west"[1]

In the 1300s Islamic influence from the Mali empire had crept into Hausa land. in 1349 the King of Kano Ali Yaji dissolved the cult of Tsumbubura, the powerful theocratic cult of the Hausa Animist religion, this sparked a wave of rebellion throughout the kingdom. At some point afterwards, the remnant of the high priests of the cult converged on Santolo, an important seat of Hausa Animism. Invigorated by religious zeal the new 'Sultan' with the support of Wangara Muslims descended on Santolo where an epic battle was fought.

The Battle of Santolo was a decisive battle between the newly declared Kanoan Sultanate and the Animist Hausa Kingdom of Santolo, it was the first recorded Islamic Jihad waged and fought in Sudanic Africa.

Lol fulaman only if you know how kanuri looks like or you are been untrue to yourself...if you know how a real kanuri look like... from ali modu sherif,shehu of borno,kashim hey the list..and what is hausa-fulani you can call them either hausa or fulani,,, or just call them fulani we have no need for them

Fulaman198:
He could pass easily for a Fulani, Kanuri and some of the so-called Hausa-Fulani. There are many Nigerians that look like him. So that's why we can't say for sure if he's Ethio. But in African cultures, you are typically what you father is, so....it's very possible she said she is Ethio based on the fact that she is using her fathers background.

GeorgeAmax:
Hahahah...Only Delta state produce 2 men out of 10. (Elumelu & Jim Ovia). We no dey cari last.

kano state produce two also .. abdulsamad and dangote,, besides dangote wealth is greater than the other 9 combined

Anambra state with largest billonaires.. lol I can see from the list

Happy lots of almajiris representing arewa

eliethankyle:
Nigeria’s three largest ethnic groups, the Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo. Most Hausa are Muslims engaged in agriculture, commerce, and small-scale industry. The Ooni of Ife is the spiritual head of the Yoruba.
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so dangote,abdulsamad and thousand of hausa engaged in small scale trading to you? Nothing like hausafulani you are either hausa or fulani

Lol the idiot's when thinking of the poor people in the north won't focus on dangote,muttalab,sayyu etc .. I dare say there lots of undocumented billionaires specifically in kano than most states in nigeria.. when we have money we don't brag about it ... just look at dangote to think of from his family we have lots of billionaires you don't hear

Thee zanna bukar I think is of kanuri origin.. I don't know much about the eternal knot

And the hausa looks which I disagree with the,poster.. because we hausa are culturally homogeneous but racially diverse people.. I would post example of how different hausa people look... the katsinawa hausa are generally the most beautiful very tall, little bit fair in complexion.. why say kanawas are little bit dark and short.. mind you all this places are majority hausa katsina is even regarded as ancestral home of hausas.. so hausa people have no definite look

DravenCreighton:
Indeed, I appreciate that you're sort of the ambassador for hausa people on the culture section, but sometimes you need to stop trying to berate other cultures by turning everything into a contest between our people and their people, whoever they are, especially the fulbe, like I said, they are our brothers. BTW have you seen this thread, I swear it's the best in the culture section, if you can see past the ops pagan extremism and hausa superiority complex, it's just amazing. IMHO I believe the true hausa culture is second to none in Africa or even the world, I swear, judging by the progress our people made on their own back then, we have the potential to rule the world, we just don't see it yet, anyways check it out later, maybe you've seen it?
https://www.nairaland.com/1023235/real-hausa
Thank me later if you haven't.

lol they are lot of things I didn't agree with on that thread.. from the time he said fulani style turban worn by hausa people... which is totally not true.. the indigo dyed turban known in hausa as alasho gave the trans Saharan trade its distinct blue indigo has been produced in kano dye pits for centuries.. heck even the tauregs that popularized it got it from the hausa

DravenCreighton:
Indeed, I appreciate that you're sort of the ambassador for hausa people on the culture section, but sometimes you need to stop trying to berate other cultures by turning everything into a contest between our people and their people, whoever they are, especially the fulbe, like I said, they are our brothers. BTW have you seen this thread, I swear it's the best in the culture section, if you can see past the ops pagan extremism and hausa superiority complex, it's just amazing. IMHO I believe the true hausa culture is second to none in Africa or even the world, I swear, judging by the progress our people made on their own back then, we have the potential to rule the world, we just don't see it yet, anyways check it out later, maybe you've seen it?
https://www.nairaland.com/1023235/real-hausa
Thank me later if you haven't.

lol I have no problem against other culture or people as a whole.. but we must appreciate our culture and who we are.. I have already seen that thread.. am very glad that I have a detailed history that span thousand of years.. and lastly is very bad to give credit of what my hausa ancestors did to other ethnic groups that have no input in

Fulaman198:
Rimaybe exists as a caste everywhere not just Nineties l Nigeria or Cameroon. Juldeh Camara is Rimaybe because as you can tell by his last name, he's Mande. Juldeh in the Fulani language means prayer or pray. Camara is 100% Mande. Going by his name alone we know that his bloodline inherited Fulbe culture.
Senegalese Fulani do indeed have more castes than Nigerian Fulani or so I have been told by Fulani from other countries.
Fulani look = tall, beautiful teeth and most times lanky but not always as some Fulani living in grandeur are a bit plump loll. Fulani noses typically speaking are not wide. Some small, some long. For me personally I can easily spot a Fulani in a crowd.
The typical Fulani look is more of a Buhari, Yar'adua kind of look.

lol why not atiku,ribadu,nyako, and lamido adamawa himself etc.. but fulaman do you know katsina is a hausa state with hausa majority... I just cant understand why katsina hausa are the most beautiful even among other hausa's,, it is had to comeby a person from katsina who is ugly... katsina is almost 70percent hausa

Fulaman198:
So true my brother. I know that Kaura doesn't want to admit it, but I think she deep down dislikes us Fulbe.

lol how can I hate fulani's when my mom is also one.. the truth is that we must be proud of whom we are

redcliff:
There are somethings best left for some tribes. Gbam!

yeah because suya is hausa indigenous

Actually I don't mind we hausa look black negro or whatsoever what matters is that we have one of the best grounded civilization in africa ... we have great culture kings queens like queen amina etc tubali great architecture etc our our ancestors are proud of they achieve as people not some looks you have no input in

This one too

Glenda too is not hausa

Lol peter is not hausa too

Diallo came from a prominent Fulbe family of Muslim religious leaders. His grandfather had founded the town of Bundu, and he grew up with Samba Geladio Diegui the heir (kamalenku) to the Kingdom of Futa-Toro. In 1730, Ayuba became a victim of the ever-growing slave exploitation of the Senegambia region. Ayuba and his interpreter Loumein Yoas (also known as “Lamine Jay,” “Lahamin Joy,” “Lahmin Jay,” “Lamine Ndiaye,” “Loumein Ybai,” and “Lamine Jay”) were near the Gambia River to trade slaves and paper. While visiting some friends on their return trip, Ayuba and Yoas were captured by invading Mandingoes.[1] The invaders shaved their heads to make them appear as war captives, and thereby supposedly legitimately enslavable, as opposed to their actual condition of people captured in a kidnapping raid for the specific purpose of selling slaves for financial profit. The two men were sold to factors of the Royal African Company. Ayuba subsequently convinced English Captain Pike of his high social status, and explained his father was capable of paying ransom. Pike granted Ayuba leave to find someone to send word to Ayuba’s family. Since the messenger did not return in time, at the behest of Captain Henry Hunt, Pike’s superior, Ayuba and Loumein were sent across the Atlantic to Annapolis, Maryland, where he was delivered

Diallo came from a prominent Fulbe family of Muslim religious leaders. His grandfather had founded the town of Bundu, and he grew up with Samba Geladio Diegui the heir (kamalenku) to the Kingdom of Futa-Toro. In 1730, Ayuba became a victim of the ever-growing slave exploitation of the Senegambia region. Ayuba and his interpreter Loumein Yoas (also known as “Lamine Jay,” “Lahamin Joy,” “Lahmin Jay,” “Lamine Ndiaye,” “Loumein Ybai,” and “Lamine Jay”) were near the Gambia River to trade slaves and paper. While visiting some friends on their return trip, Ayuba and Yoas were captured by invading Mandingoes.[1] The invaders shaved their heads to make them appear as war captives, and thereby supposedly legitimately enslavable, as opposed to their actual condition of people captured in a kidnapping raid for the specific purpose of selling slaves for financial profit. The two men were sold to factors of the Royal African Company. Ayuba subsequently convinced English Captain Pike of his high social status, and explained his father was capable of paying ransom. Pike granted Ayuba leave to find someone to send word to Ayuba’s family. Since the messenger did not return in time, at the behest of Captain Henry Hunt, Pike’s superior, Ayuba and Loumein were sent across the Atlantic to Annapolis, Maryland, where he was delivered

Haha Anderson is not hausa I dont were you get this information

O.k let me say fula slaves in America

Omar ibn Said was born in present-day Senegal in Futa Tooro,[1] a region along the Middle Senegal River in West Africa, to a wealthy family.[2] He was an Islamic scholar and a Fula who spent 25 years of his life studying with prominent Muslim scholars, learning subjects ranging from arithmetic to theology in Africa. In 1807, he was captured during a military conflict, enslaved and taken across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States. He escaped from a cruel master in Charleston, South Carolina, and journeyed to Fayetteville, North Carolina. There he was recaptured and later sold to James Owen. Said lived into his mid-nineties and was still a slave at the time of his death in 1864. He was buried in Bladen County, North Carolina. Omar ibn Said was also known as Uncle Moreau and Prince Omeroh.[1]

Abdu-l-Rahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori (a.k.a. Abdul-Rahman) was a prince from West Africa who was made a slave in the United States. After spending 40 years in slavery, he was freed in 1828 by order of President John Quincy Adams and Secretary of State Henry Clay after the Sultan of Morocco requested his release. He was captured near the Futa Djallon.

The Gobarau Minaret (var. Gobirau, Goborau) is a 50-foot minaret located in the center of the city of Katsina, Northern Nigeria. As an early example of Muslim architecture in a city known as a theological center, the tower has become a symbol of the city.

HistoryEdit

Gobarau is said to be the first multi-storey building in West Africa[citation needed], with its construction believed to have been completed during the reign of Sarkin Katsina (King) Muhammadu Korau (1398-1408 AD) -- the first Muslim King of Katsina. Other sources date the structure from the 16th to 18th centuries, with a major reconstruction taking place in the early 20th century.

Originally built as the central Mosque of Katsina town, it was later used also as a school. By the beginning of the 16th century, Katsina had become a very important commercial and academic center in Hausaland, and Gobarau mosque had grown into a famed institution of higher Islamic education. Gobarau continued to be Katsina's Central mosque until the beginning of the 19th century AD, when Sarkin Katsina Ummarun Dallaji (1805-1835) built a new mosque, which was later demolished by Muhammadu Dikko (1906–1944), who built the famous Masallacin Dutsi, which is still used up to this day.

The mosque and its tower were renovated by Sarkin Katsina Muhammadu Kabir Usman (1981–2008).

MythologyEdit

A popular myth about the origin of Gobarau states that when Muhammadu Korau slew Jibda-Yaki Sanau, the last pagan king of Katsina, he desired to construct a mosque. After the site was selected, there arose the problem of the direction of the Qiblah where the mosque must face. Muhammadu Korau consulted the Muslim scholars of that time, and they all agreed to a certain direction, except one Mallam Jodoma, who was a stranger. An argument broke out, and the other scholars insulted Jodoma of being a stranger who wanted to bring instability. Incensed, Mallam Jodoma pointed his staff at another direction, and there appeared the Ka'abah clearly. The tower was also used for spotting invading armies.

Muhammadu Korau was amazed, and made Mallam Jodoma his Chief Imam, much to the dismay of the other scholars, who jealously made Muhammadu Korau believe that Jodoma, becoming increasingly famous, wanted his throne. Jodoma was banished from Katsina, and he settled at Guga, a village in present day Bakori Local government in Katsina state, where he died.

TourismEdit

Today Gobarau is a tourist attraction site, along with the Kusugu well in Daura.

References

After all we are all africans