Land tenure among the rural Hausa

To achieve this, the author looks first at the current pagan Hausa land tenure system. Though not completely identical to the land tenure system practiced by all Hausa prior to the Fulani Conquest, there is sufficient similarity between the two to warrant the former"s use as a basic original model, once the differences between the original and current systems have been pointed out. He then describes the Fulani and British administrative structures and decrees and the Islamic influences and how they affected the pagan land tenure system. Finally, he describes the current land tenure system practiced among the Muslim Hausa population, who are today the vast majority of the inhabitants of Hausaland. The author hopes that the paper will provide readers with some idea of past and current land tenure systems, of the processes which occurred in transforming the former into the latter, and of the problems current to land tenure in Hausaland and the need for solutions to them.