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History & Governance/ Pre-Colonial Slavery & Anthropological Religion

Ethnic Groups of Yauri (Hausa Presence in the Waters of the Niger)

11records·7 fields·csv·2.3 KB·West Africa, focusing on the shifting riverine ecologies, islands, banks, and mainland districts along the River Niger inside the Yauri Emirate (modern Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria), with migratory and linguistic vectors extending outward to Songhai territories, Katsina State, Borgu, Niger State (Rijau/Kontagora), and Kwara State (Ilorin).·c. 1411 A.D. – 2014 A.D.

A structured ethnological, linguistic, and historical settlement dataset mapping 11 core ethnic groups, local endonyms, migration origins, linguistic families, spatial locations, sub-group components, and socio-political relationships that define the diverse populace of the Yauri Kingdom (later the Yauri Emirate) along the River Niger

Source & Methodology

Extracted from colonial ethnographic files, linguistic field studies, oral tradition ledgers, court records, and local history archives systemized by editors Prof. A.I. Yandaki, Prof. H.M. Maishanu, and Prof. M.U. Bunza in their collaborative volume "Hausa Presence in the Waters of the Niger: A History of Yauri Kingdom from 1411 up to its Emirate Status", commissioned directly by the Emir of Yauri, HRH Dr. Muhammad Zayyanu Abdullahi, CON.

Related Project

project / historical-political-western-sahel

Schema — 7 fields

Grouptext
Local Nametext
Origintext
Languagetext
Locationtext
Sub-Groupstext
Notestext
Ethnic GroupsYauri KingdomKambari PeopleGungawa IslandsBaresha AutonymHune DukkawaKisra MigrationMeccan DeitiesKainji Dam ResettlementSarauta SystemKatsina ScholarsShangawa WrestlingLopawa CultsFarmer Pastoralist ConflictsNupe Tribute ClothYoruba Title LitigationsLinguistic TypologiesNiger-Congo FamiliesMahdi Adamu

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