Hausa basket from Nigeria. Old and used part over 50 years old.

The Hausa are a people of the Sahel established in northern Nigeria and in southern Niger up to Lake Chad. Large communities are also found in northern Benin, Ghana and Cameroon. A few small communities are scattered across West Africa as well as on the Muslim hajj pilgrimage route from West Africa through Chad and Sudan. Many Hausa have moved to major West African coastal cities such as Lagos, Accra and Cotonou or to Libya in search of work. However, most Hausa people still live in small villages where they practice food cultivation and raise livestock. Hausa farmers adjust their agriculture to seasonal changes in rainfall and temperature. They speak the Hausa language which belongs to the Chadic language group, a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

They showed themselves powerful and united to engage in local conquests, trade and slave trafficking.
Farmers and craftsmen, the Hausa have developed an urban civilization based on the commercialization of a craft of leather, iron, weaving and agricultural products.