A lot of different theories have been conjured to try to explain the illusive origin and history of the hausa ethnic group of West Africa. But one that has recently caught my attention is the stipulation that hausas may have actually migrated from ancient egypt or they have rule ancient Egypt. for me it sounds like the most plausible, certainly sounds a lot more plausible than the Bayajidda legend which i believe was invented by someone in 18th century, same person responsible for yorubas today thinking they originated from Mecca.

Anyways, for me, especially when it comes to the linguistic similarities, its quite striking, in the first place an afro asiatic language definitely makes more sense if it originated from Egypt. For instance, some curious researchers noticed these similarities between egyptian and hausa words.

"Hausa relationships with ancient egyptians is obvious since the first studies in the beginning of the twentieth century:

Werner Vicychl, 1938 made this relationship certain by making 200 to 300 comparisons with ancient egyptian.

Carleton T. Hodge,1966 , Indianna University wrote on Hausa-Egyptian establishment.

so also Greenberg, Lillias Homburger, Moustapha Gadalla, Skinner.

Mrs Lugard, historian and wife of Nigerian colonial Governor talked about This relation.

The term ” SERECK” which preceded pharaoh’s names is a mis intrepretation of ” SARAKI”, the legendary Serpent in Hausa History and Title of Hausa King till nowadays.

Sereck is somtimes said to be the book of kings, plural for king is “Saraaki” in Hausa."

"what is surprising is that hausa defines exactly words as do ancient egyptian:

The example of Qasr-El – Fara-frah called “white Desert” today in Egypt means litterally the same thing in Hausa” Earth white-white”.

Tutankhamon(Live image of Amon) in ancient egyptian ,has the same definition in Hausa: ” Your Representation Amon”

Tuta means “flag” Etandard” and ” Ka” means “yours”:

“Tutan ka ” signify in hausa ,” your representation/ your image/ your symbol of power”.

Kingship in Hausa derived from the bite of the serpent

“SARA” and the term of Kingship “Sarauta” = Qui coupe

court, like a serpent bite. may be why ancient egyptian kings had Crowns with a Serpent head. - "

Now, another point to note is that worship of the sun was definitely prominent in early hausa civilizations and we know what the sun god "RA" meant to the egyptians.

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"Hausa is I think the only language in the world in which ” RA” means the Sun(RA-na).RAna means litterally “My RA or RA is mine” like proper name as RA-naw

:”na and naw” are first person possessive.

“Baka”as named some pharaohs is “the controler of the territory” and in ancient time people said”Qasar Baka:territory of Baka”. Baka can signify Arc like in the pharaoh name “ShaBaka”(endowed with arcs).

“Gada” means “bridge” , so Nagada means “The ones near the bridge”, it can be a town, persons or something. Narmer in his time had constructed a bridge.

Qasar- El -Farah-Frah (white desert) in the Siwa region are hausa words meaning”White land”.

I leave you with these few examples to judge by yourselves. "

NOTE: Recently, ancient pyramids have been discovered in Niger Republic, which was a part of hausa states.

Another similarity is this quote i picked out from wikipedia on the origin of hausa boxing called dambe

"The stances and single wrapped fist of Hausa boxers bear visual resemblance to illustrations of Ancient Egyptian and Hellenistic boxers. This has caused speculation that Hausa boxing is directly related to Ancient Egyptian boxing[8] and who influenced whom is always a contentious topic, but the argument is supported by theories that the Hausa people used to live farther east, toward Sudan, than they do today."

In addition, the pre-Islamic religion of the Hausa has some beliefs that resonate ancient Egyptian religion of worshipping RA. For instance, there is this song where the sun is seen as Devine and blood sacrifice is alluded to it as follows:

Rana, rana bude

In yanka miki ragon suna

ki sha jini, shar-shar

trans:

Oh Sun, oh sun open up

I will sacrifice a ram (used to slaughter for naming a child) for you

So that you drink, spurt, spurt.

Some year ago, about 2o years precisely some terracotta found in Hausaland (Zamfara in particular) where they show some ancient Egyptian characteristics such as:

i. Artificial beard used by the kings of the New Kingdom

ii. Crossing fingers used for mummies.

iii. Burial of terracotta near the tombs of people as if suggesting that they are representing the dead so that their soul may enter such bodies in the afterlife.

These led us to hypothesize that the civilization that produced these figurines might have some relationship with ancient Egypt. Although, we could not establish their relationship with the Hausa people who now live in the area.

Heck im not sure about this, sounds like bogus, but a team researchers supposedly found that the biblical moses may have had some relationship with hausa, though im not really sure about this.

The theory that hausas migrated from Egypt definitely makes a lot more sense than the botched theory of some iraqi prince Bayajidda  and apparently a lot of people agree with me on this but nonetheless, its still up for debate.

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Source: Ifeval Juniorite