Bayajidda (Hausa: Bàyā̀jiddà) was, according to the legends surrounding most West African states before the 19th century, the founder of the Hausa states...
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Hausa oral history is reflected in the Bayajidda legend, which describes the adventures of the Baghdadi hero, Bayajidda, culminating in the killing of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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refer to: Sarki, a well-dwelling snake slain by the mythological prince Bayajidda Şarkı, a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music Sarki (ethnic group),...
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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...
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founded, according to the Bayajidda legend, by the six sons of Bawo. Bawo was the only son of the Hausa queen Daurama and Bayajidda or (Abu Yazid according...
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