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Hausa/Fulani

Stories of the Hausa/Fulani.

35 stories

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25 Lost history · Sokoto

Satiru 1906, the village that was never allowed to rise again

The Satiru uprising near Sokoto →
26 People · Kaduna

Gambo Sawaba, the woman who kept a prison blanket by the door

Hajiya Gambo Sawaba of Zaria →
27 Lost history · Sokoto

Surame, the stone city that made Kanta of Kebbi a "Pharaoh"

Surame, Kanta's stone capital →
28 Custom · Kebbi

Yauri, where a new emir once sat on a hippo for his picture

The hippo of Yauri Emirate →
29 Custom · Katsina

Musawa, the town that gave its crocodiles names and its babies their mark

The lost crocodiles of Musawa →
30 Lost history · Kebbi

Jega, the kolanut town that paddled all the way to Yorubaland

Jega's kolanut traders →
31 Legend · Sokoto

Hubbaren Shehu, the house where Dan Fodio lies in his wife's room

Hubbaren Shehu, Sokoto →
32 Lost history · Katsina

Funtua, the cotton mill that refused to sack anyone

Funtua Textiles and its spinners →
33 Lost history · Gombe

Mbormi, the field where a Sultan of Sokoto lies among the farms

The tomb of Sultan Attahiru I at Mbormi →
34 Lost history · Gombe

Gombe Abba, the emirs' capital the British left behind

The first capital of Gombe Emirate →
35 Lost history · Borno

Uba, the town a highway cut between two states

Uba, half in Borno and half in Adamawa →
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