Bayajidda (Hausa: Bàyā̀jiddà) was, according to the legends surrounding most West African states before the 19th century, the founder of the Hausa states...

Hausa oral history is reflected in the Bayajidda legend, which describes the adventures of the Baghdadi hero, Bayajidda, culminating in the killing of the...

for its relation to the legend of the hero Bayajidda defeating the snake Sarki. The well and Bayajidda's supposed dagger are now a tourist attraction...

Kano, Katsina, Zazzau, Gobir, and Rano), ruled by the descendants of Bayajidda's sons with Daurama and Magira (his first wife). The University of California's...

tells the traditional story of the foundation of the Hausa kingdoms by Bayajidda, an Arab adventurer from Baghdad, and gives a list of rulers along with...

Nigeria. The story of Magajiya Daurama is partially told in the legend of Bayajidda. Magajiya Daurama ruled a state known as Daura, after the town with the...

because it was ruled by the descendants of the Hausa mythological figure Bayajidda and his second wife, Daurama. By 1810, during the Fulani War, the Hausa...

refer to: Sarki, a well-dwelling snake slain by the mythological prince Bayajidda Şarkı, a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music Sarki (ethnic group),...

the establishment of the Daura Emirate and city. Daura is the city that Bayajidda, a figure from Hausa mythology, arrived at after his trek across the Sahara...

Gassire's Lute, a West African epic about the fall of the Ghana Empire Bayajidda, a West African epic Eri, a West African epic Oduduwa, a West African...