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Hausa of Rural Niger - College Essay

Hausa of Rural Niger

Ashley Bancroft
Soc. 112
28 January 2013

Hausa of Rural Niger

The Hausa people from rural Niger predominantly live in the Sahel. The Sahel is like a belt that spans across the African continent between the Sahara desert and the Savannahs. The Sahel is a very arid and flat place with very few trees and poor rocky and/or sandy soil. There are only two seasons here: the dry season and the rainy season. All of these conditions make it hard to grow crops, however, they harvest what they can during the rainy season from July to October. The main crop is millet. When the Hausa people aren't farming they tend to live closer to or in the city during the dry season from October to ...

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do have edible leaves and fruit. Some Hausa people even believe that spirits reside in the trees.
Hausa people live in villages close to their farms. Some villages are small and open like Kakajimin. There are only six huts in this village, which consist of mostly family so there are no walls for privacy or separation, making this a compact village. Villagers use natural resources from their surrounding to make their homes or huts. In Kakajimin, round huts are built with a brick base, mud walls and thatched roofs. There is no electricity in Kakajimin or running water. Instead water is gathered from an in ground well by Hausa women.
In Lili, a bigger village, Hausa live in compounds, or multi home dwellings. Compounds aren't open like the compact villages, they use fences made from leftover crops to surround their house and the compound of houses. The homes in Lili are different in other ways than in Kakajimin as they are square and have hangers, porch like coverings for ...

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Added: 4/30/2013 04:25:51 PM
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Category: Geography
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