East African Scholars Journal of Education, Humanities and Literature Abbreviated Key Title: East African Scholars J Edu Humanit Lit ISSN: 2617-443X (Print) & ISSN: 2617-7250 (Online) Published By East African Scholars Publisher, Kenya Volume-5 | Issue-3 | Mar- 2022 | DOI: 10.36349/easjehl.2022.v05i03.004 *Corresponding Author: Abdulbasir Ahmad Atuwo 87 Department of Nigerian Languages Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto Review Article Seeing is believing: Identifying A True Hausa Man Abdulbasir Ahmad Atuwo 1* , Dano Balarabe Bunza 1 1 Department of Nigerian Languages Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto Article History Received: 11.02.2022 Accepted: 18.03.2022 Published: 22.03.2022 Journal homepage: https://www.easpublisher.com Quick Response Code Abstract: Hausa people are among the popular communities in Africa due to their eminence in trade, scholarship, military service such as the world wars, leadership, and politics in media/journalism, in academics, etc. These factors, however, influenced the acceptability of the Hausa Language as a good area of study in many Nigerian Universities. Hausa is also studied in American, German, Asian, and Universities. This paper concentrated more on trying to use some factors to identify who is a Hausa man? Where is he located? What are his features and behaviors? The factors used by this paper include: Place identified as Hausaland, his facial marks, his clothes or dress, his dietary habits, his physical features, his body gestures, and his uniqueness of specializing in a dangerous occupation. Keywords: Hausa, Hausa Man, Hausa People, Hausa Community. Copyright © 2022 The Author(s): This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial use provided the original author and source are credited. INTRODUCTION God the Almighty, in His compassionate and exceptional attribute of will, created mankind in two pairs, man and woman, and made them live together and assist one another as partners in life. God created Adam and his wife, Eve in paradise, but was later sent down on earth because they committed an offense. Their generation continued to multiply in diversity all over the world in different colors, languages, shapes, and environments. This transformed to what today is regarded as the human world population contained in four geographical global continents: Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. God the Almighty gave his reason for creating mankind in diversity and with differences as indicated in the Glorious Qur‟an. “O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female. And we made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (Not that ye may despise each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)”. (49:13) It, therefore, went down to tribes like Hausa communities as part and parcel of hundreds of thousands of other world communities. Each of these communities has a language that possessed some unique features that can be identifiable by its native speakers and other people. This paper discussed issues that can be used in identifying Hausa man. Hausa communities were among the popular tribes in the African ethnic groups, especially in Sub- Saharan communities identified as hardworking, honest, and frank. They were people found in West Africa and have a strong belief in search. The search could be for wealth, education (either Islamic or Western), medicine or professional skills and that is why Hausa communities can be found in different parts of the world. The word “Hausa” connotes language which refers to the spoken language or area of studies or geographical location in Northern Nigeria in West Africa. Linguistically, it is classified as one of the Chadic family language members. The other Chadic language family includes; Kare-kare, Ngizim, Miya, Bolanci, Bade, Tera, Margi, Mandara, Bura, Angas, Kanakuru, Bacama and so on [ 1 ]. This interpretation is commonly perceived and propagated by Hausa oral singers e.g. in Ahmadu Bello‟s song by Musa Ɗanƙwairo, he used the term Hausa: 1 . Bunza, A.M. (1989) Hayaki Fid da na Kogo. M.A. Dissertation, Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University Kano (p. 3-4).