Discover THE HAUSA PEOPLE of West Africa : Origins, Genetics, Personality etc.
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The Hausa People
Hi guys, welcome to another video in our African Tribes series. Afroartista Films is that channel that strives to educate you about Africa and her people. Today we look into : the Hausa people. Here are six facts you didn’t know about this huge Afroasiatic speaking community. Please remember to like this video and subscribe to Afroartista Films.
1. Big population.
The Hausa are the largest ethnic group in West and Central Africa, numbering around 52 million people. I was surprised to learn that there are Hausa people in Eritrea. Other countries where they can be found are Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Sudan, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Chad, Congo, Central African Republic, Togo, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Senegal, and the Gambia. The Hausa people are concentrated mainly in northwestern Nigeria and in adjoining southern Niger. This area is mostly semiarid grassland or savanna, dotted with cities surrounded by farming communities. The cities of this region—Kano, Sokoto, Zari, and Katsina, for example—are among the greatest commercial centers in sub-Saharan Africa (Africa south of the Sahara Desert).
2. Origins and Genetics
According to a Y-DNA study by Hassan et al. (2008), about 47% of Hausa in Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Sudan carry the West Eurasian haplogroup R1b. The remainder belongs to various African paternal lineages: 15.6% B, 12.5% A, and 12.5% E1b1a. A small minority of around 4% are E1b1b clade bearers, a haplogroup which is most common in North Africa and the Horn of Africa. Real pure Hausa therefore have their origins in the Eurasian portion of the Middle East. However, it's important to note that a majority of Hausa-speaking people are not genetically Hausa and may be closely related to Nilo-Saharan populations from Chad and South Sudan. This suggests that they originally spoke Nilo-Saharan languages before adopting languages from the Afroasiatic family after migration into th
