Word: hausa
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Facility in any one of the three main languages—Hausa from West Africa, Swahili from East Africa and Zulu or its cousin Xhosa from South Africa—would enable students hoping to study in those parts of Africa to communicate successfully...
Applications for the position of a junior preceptor who can teach at least two West African languages (Yoruba and Hausa, Mugane hopes) will be reviewed today, according to Akyeampong. The South African languages of Zulu and Xhosa will also be offered...
...their home in Timia, across the desert, to the salt oasis of Bilma. After collecting a load of Bilma's salt, which still occurs in the form of upright pillars as described in the Bible, the group will head south for Nigeria, where they will sell their cargo to Hausa traders. It is an age-old example of the "comparative advantage" theory of international trade: the salt farmers, the transporters and the traders each stick to what they do best. There was a time when the salt ferried by the Tuareg was worth more than gold or silver, and trade...
...move their capital 300 miles inland. The Gwari tribe was forced off its land as the government began constructing its new capital here in the middle of the country. They chose the sparsely-populated region because it isn't dominated by any of the three major tribes, the Hausa, the Yoruba, and the Igbo...
...minister, although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north, the Muslim Hausa-Fulani elite who run the military. The Yoruba and the southeastern Igbo people are bitterly resentful that successive military governments have plundered the wealth derived from the rich oil fields of the impoverished south...