West Africa

[Meru]

am so stuck to my story like a fat kid to his pizza. there was no language switch. in fact am watching hausa channel on DSTV channel 117 and its a FACT hausa are related to somalis. i majored in history and was best in my class.

[Mckuus]

am so stuck to my story like a fat kid to his pizza. there was no language switch. in fact am watching hausa channel on DSTV channel 117 and its a FACT hausa are related to somalis. i majored in history and was best in my class.

Quote from a genetics study:

''The Hausa, who speak a Chadic Afroasiatic language cluster with the Niger-Kordofanian speaking populations in the phylogenetic trees (Figs. 1, S7, S8), consistent with the high levels of the Niger-Kordofanian AACs observed in this population on the basis of STRUCTURE analysis (Figs. 3, 4, 5B, 5C, S15, S24) and in keeping with long recognized linguistic evidence of Niger-Kordofanian influence on the Hausa, including 22 several salient loanwords, such as the word for meat (S128)''

Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5930/1035.full - see Supporting Online Material - DOI: 10.1126/science.1172257.

^The Hausa are more like Niger-Congo groups, they are very different from most Afro-Asiatic speakers (like Berbers, Somalis etc), the genetics speaks for itself.

[Meru]

listen wise guy,we dont want hausa in niger-congo,so what does that leave them?? afroasiatic,thats right,my mind is made up and nothing can change it. better luck trying to squeeze water from a rock. hallelujah!

[ZubeirAwal]

Meru,i'm a somali, and i can tell you the Hausa do not look like us, we know ourselves better then you do.

[Meru]

Meru,i'm a somali, and i can tell you the Hausa do not look like us, we know ourselves better then you do.

i have many somali neighbors and each day i look at them then the hausa channel i can assure you the women are almost similar,just like arabs and indians. but since am not somali i guess thats why i cant tell the difference. am just saying maybe historicaly you came from 1 ancestor.

[ZubeirAwal]

this hausa man look somali to you?

while this is your average somali male look

does this hausa girl look somali to you?

while this is your average somali girl


Point proven.

[Mckuus]

listen wise guy,we dont want hausa in niger-congo,so what does that leave them?? afroasiatic,thats right,my mind is made up and nothing can change it. better luck trying to squeeze water from a rock. hallelujah!

They speak a language in that group indeed.

But Hausa genetics are closer to Niger-Congo peope than they are to Afro-Asiatic people.

[OliveOil]

Anybody know of great places to go to in North West Africa?

go to northern Nigeria places like kano and meet your cousins the Hausa people, they are just like Somalis.

N they are Muslims!!

[abdalla11]

It's a tough choice between morroco and the islamic repbublic of mauritania

[SultanOrder]

It's a tough choice between morroco and the islamic repbublic of mauritania

I feel the same way

[abdalla11]

It's a tough choice between morroco and the islamic repbublic of mauritania

I feel the same way

Ninyahow you clearly said you wanted a country where they speak arabic, what's with this people suggesting Nigeria, senegal and Gambia

[SultanOrder]

It's a tough choice between morroco and the islamic repbublic of mauritania

I feel the same way

Ninyahow you clearly said you wanted a country where they speak arabic, what's with this people suggesting Nigeria, senegal and Gambia

They just fantasizing, what about Algeria and tunisia?

[Knight of Wisdom]

It's a tough choice between morroco and the islamic repbublic of mauritania

I feel the same way

Ninyahow you clearly said you wanted a country where they speak arabic, what's with this people suggesting Nigeria, senegal and Gambia

I mentioned Mansa Musa last night in a thread, about how he was so generous and charitable. So, I guess, they think if they commercialize Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, they'd be receiving some sort of reward.