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  • Concentrated in the southeast, the Igbos, who are predominantly Catholic, had significant "outside" presences in other regions, notably the largely Muslim north, where the Hausas are dominant.

    The Trouble 2010

  • The Fellowship has short-term mission programs to Africa and has been effective in working with local Churches in Africa to reach the unreached in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, and other African nations, and have dared to work among such Islamic ethnic groups like the Kanuris, the Hausas, and others.

    African blessings 2007

  • It was pointed out that such men are usually called names and sometimes they cannot mix freely with others for fear of being ridiculed by their colleagues.but other groups especially the Igbos and the Hausas are on the contrary

    Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • I'm clad in coat and trousers, with boots upon my feet, And tamfurafu and Hausas I seldom deign to greet.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • I'm clad in coat and trousers, with boots upon my feet, And tamfurafu and Hausas I seldom deign to greet.

    Address to the Botswana National Assembly 2003

  • I believe, as fighting men to our Hausas, and very devoted to, and well treated by, their French officers.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Nigeria is home to 120 million people divided among 250 ethnic groups dominated by the Hausas of the north, the Yorubas of the west and the Ibos in the east.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Demographically, the country was roughly divided into three major tribal regions: the predominantly Moslem Hausas in the north, the Ibo in the east, and the Yoruba in the west, all of whom were commerce-oriented.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

  • Demographically, the country was roughly divided into three major tribal regions: the predominantly Moslem Hausas in the north, the Ibo in the east, and the Yoruba in the west, all of whom were commerce-oriented.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

  • The Beroms are the natives of Jos and have long resented the growing dominance of the Hausas, who they consider outsiders.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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