Nigeria, a country with diverse cultural traditions, has a rich and colourful heritage in traditional headwear. The ...

I was also enamoured of the singing and dancing in the Hausa films and the young people telling stories of ordinary life in northern Nigeria. There were plenty of scholars who had written about Hausa ...

Marriage within the Hausa-Fulani communities is traditionally ... The Efik and Ibibio tribes in southern Nigeria, particularly in Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, are seeing a gradual increase ...

(The author spent two months this summer in Nigeria with Operation Crossroads Africa. He worked on the costruction of an open-air market in Ojo Village, twenty miles northwest of the capital of Lagos.

There are a number of theories and stories connected with the Hausa people, who today live in northern Nigeria, parts of Ghana, Niger and Togo. Some centre on the idea of migration. For example ...

Adamawa was named after a warrior, Modibbo Adama Bin Ardo Hassan, that conquered the region in the beginning of the 19th ...