Hausa people

Hausa

Total population
Roughly 50 million
Regions with significant populations
Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Ghana,Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon.
Languages
Hausa (native language/mother tongue) English (spoken by those living in Ghana and Nigeria) French (spoken by those living in Cameroon, Chad, Benin, Togo, Gabon, Niger, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire) Arabic (Used as a liturgical language and spoken by those living in Sudan and Chad)
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Maguzawa, Azna, Mawri, Gwandara, Ngezzim, Bole, Fula.

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural Hausawa and general: Hausa/Haoussa; exonyms being Ausa, Mgbakpa, Kado, Al-Takari, Fellata and Abakwariga) are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. The Hausa are a diverse but culturally homogeneous people based primarily in the Sahelian and Sudanian Daura area of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger, with significant numbers also living in parts of Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Togo, Ghana,Sudan, Gabon and Senegal.

The largest population of Hausa are concentrated in Nigeria and Niger. Predominantly Hausa-speaking communities are scattered throughout West Africa, and on the traditional Hajj route north and east traversing the Sahara Desert, with an especially large population around and in the town of Agadez. Other Hausa have also moved to large coastal cities in the region such as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Accra, Abidjan, Banjul and Cotonou, as well as to parts of North Africa such as Libya over the course of the last 500 years.

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