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Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East, during the early 7th century CE. Almost one-third of the world's Muslim population resides in Africa. Muslims crossed current Djibouti and Somaliland to seek refuge in present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia during the Hijrah ...
Merchants from North Africa and the Senegalese basin introduced Islam to what is now Nigeria during the 11th century, and it was the first monotheistic Abrahamic religion to arrive in Nigeria. The northern half of Nigeria was historically under the rule of various Islamic states and empires such as the Kanem–Bornu Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, and the Hausa Kingdoms. The ...
A Yorùbá name is a name that is part of a naming tradition that is primarily used by the Yoruba people and Yoruba language –speaking individuals in Benin, Togo, and Nigeria .
Christianity and Islamare the two main religions practiced in Nigeria[2][3]The country is home to some of the world's largest Christianand Muslimpopulations, simultaneously.[4] Reliable recent statistics do not exist; however, Nigeriais divided roughly in half between Muslims, who live mostly in the northern region, and Christians, who live mostly in the southern region of the country ...
West African mythology is the body of myths of the people of West Africa. It consists of tales of various deities, beings, legendary creatures, heroes and folktales from various ethnic groups. Some of these myths traveled across the Atlantic during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to become part of Caribbean, African-American and ...
Kufi. The late President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria, a chieftain of the Fula emirate of Katsina, wearing a crown style kufi. A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, and rounded cap worn by men in many populations in North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. [1] It is also worn by men throughout the African diaspora.
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Tosin Abasi was born in Washington D.C. to Nigerian immigrants to the United States. [2] His brother, Abdul Abasi, is a former drill sergeant in the United States military and is currently a fashion designer. [3]