These are the Hausa Bakwai, the seven Hausa states. There is also an extension to this story, which can be seen as a way of explaining a number of other states, which fell under Hausa influence ...

A demand by Sudan's Hausa community to be recognised as traditional custodians of some land in Blue Nile state has erupted into deadly violence. Clashes broke out last weekend with members of ...

Already by 1809 all the Hausa states were under Muslim rule and Sokoto was established as the Caliphate for the region. In East Africa, Islam came from the East with the rule of the Omani ...