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Musicians with guembris and krakebs, one masquerading as Bu-Sadiya, a bogey. Photos of musicians affiliated with the Yan Bori. Hausa animism, Maguzanci or Bori is a pre-Islamic traditional religion of the Hausa people of West Africa that involves magic and spirit possession.
The term Hausa-Fulani is also used mostly as a joint term to refer to both the monoethnic Hausa and Fulani ethnic populations in Northern Nigeria. [2] While some Fulani claim Semitic origins, Hausas are indigenous to West Africa. [3] This suggests that the processes of "Hausaization" in the western Sudan region was probably both cultural and ...
In fact, a large number of Fulani living in Hausa regions cannot speak Fulfulde at all and speak Hausa as their first language. Many Fulani in the region do not distinguish themselves from the Hausa, as they have long intermarried, they share the Islamic religion and more than half of all Nigerian Fulani have integrated into Hausa culture. [45]
While the religion of Islam continued to evolve to a more syncretic version which the Fulani war sought to expunge, the Maguzawa and their religion became a separate faction in the State. They purely adhered to the oldest form of paganism while the Hausa rulers of Kano and most of their followers practiced a syncretic form of Islam which ...
The largest ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa-Fulani, the Yoruba, and the Igbo. Before the British colonization (1884), there were no inter-religious conflicts, Nigeria in its present borders did not exist as a single nation and the Muslim populations of northern Nigeria lived peacefully in mutual tolerance with the local animist and even ...
This Hausa–Fulani interaction is uncommon outside the eastern subregion of West Africa. [ 76 ] [ 74 ] In Mali , Burkina Faso and Senegal for instance, those within the Fulɓe cultural sphere, but who are not ethnically Fula, are referred to as yimɓe pulaaku ( 𞤴𞤭𞤥𞤩𞤫 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤵 , "people of the Fula culture").
The traditionally nomadic Fulani can be found all over West and Central Africa. [19] The Fulani and the Hausa are almost entirely Muslim, while the Igbo are almost completely Christian and so are the Bini and the Ibibio. The Yoruba make up about 21% of the country's population (estimated to be over 225 million) and are predominantly Christians ...
Fula Christians suffer different types of threats from radical and Islamic extremist groups in the historical territories where the Fula people live. [5] The situation is even more complex when attacks by Muslim Fulanis (especially Fulani herdsmen) on Christian Fulanis have been reported, who consider them as traitors and carry out arson attacks on churches and entire communities, which also ...