African trade language

Usage examples of hausa.

Everything had gone except these books and papers and the potto, which the people of all the nations in Whydah, even the Hausas, suspected of being a Roman fetiso, which might offend the local spirits.

Songhay capital at Gao, early in the the eleventh century, the Hausa states of what is now northern Nigeria were already in existence.

Bornu, Wadai, Darfur, Funj, Tutsi, Butua, Menabe, Boina, Oyo, Hausa, Masai.

Since Scarlett Trent found our Hausa friend and the rum flask, there have been no means of getting liquor to him, so I suppose he has very near regained his senses, anyhow he shipped off very cunning, not even Missionary Walsh knowing, but he made a very big mistake, the news of which I send to you knowing it will be good.

Geography was why that Hausa tribe found his hair so bizarre that they were compelled to stroke it as a good-luck charm.

Most panels bore the scarab-and-wreath stamp of the Universities of Alexandria-in-Egypt, but some carried the fasces of the Roman School of Engineering, and a few were marked with the symbols of schools in Hausa, Africa.

They were as caught up in the words as he: somehow, despite a Hausa mother and a German grandmother, despite the generations that separated Maiorian from his great ancestor, the gift had not been lost.

On his arrival he had simply marched into the place at the head of his columns of Hausas without ceremony, almost as a master, into the very presence of the King.

But away outside the clearing was that little army of Hausas, clean-limbed, faithful, well drilled and armed.

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