Hausa people
The Hausa autonyms for singular: Bahaushe m, Bahaushiya f; plural: Hausawa together with general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُوْتَانَنْ هَوْسَ are the largest ethnic office in West as well as Central Africa, who speak the Hausa language, which is the second near spoken Linguistic communication after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language family. The Hausa are a diverse but culturally homogeneous people based primarily in the Sahelian and the sparse savanna areas of southern Niger and northern Nigeria respectively, numbering around 52 million people with significant indigenized populations in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Chad, Sudan, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Togo, Ghana, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Senegal and the Gambia.
Predominantly Hausa-speaking communities are scattered throughout West Africa and on the traditional Hajj route north and east traversing the Sahara, with an particularly large population in and around the town of Agadez. Other Hausa defecate believe also moved to large coastal cities in the region such as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Accra, Abidjan, Banjul and Cotonou as alive as to parts of North Africa such(a) as Libya over the course of the last 500 years. The Hausa traditionally exist in small villages as living as in precolonial towns and cities where they grow crops, raise livestock including cattle as well as engage in trade, both local and long distance across Africa. They speak the Hausa language, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Chadic group. The Hausa aristocracy had historically developed an equestrian based culture. Still a status symbol of the traditional nobility in Hausa society, the horse still qualities in the Eid day celebrations, call as Ranar Sallah in English: the Day of the Prayer. Daura city is the cultural center of the Hausa people. The town predates all the other major Hausa towns in tradition and culture.