HAUSA THE REAL OWNERS OF PYRAMID

The Hausa people are an ethnic group that primarily live in the northwestern region of Nigeria 🇳🇬 and the southern region of Niger Republic 🇳🇪.

The Hausa are the largest ethnic group in sub-Saharan Africa. They are also found in other African countries, including Benin, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Sudan, Togo, Gabon, Algeria, Congo, and Burkina Faso. They are also found in large coastal cities such as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Accra, Abidjan, Banjul, and Cotonou. They speak their language Hausa which is one of the most spoken indigenous languages of Africa.

The Hausa are known for their ornate architecture, which includes cubic structures made of dry mud bricks (TUBALI), multi-storied buildings, Grain pyramids and traditional white tucco plaster on house fronts. 

THE CONTINUATION OF PYRAMID BUILDING THROUGH GRAINS:

The groundnut pyramids of Kano were pyramid-shaped structures built from groundnut sacks in the city of Kano, Nigeria. They were a symbol of wealth and a tourist attraction, those pyramid also proves that Hausa people are one of the people of Ancient Egypt that keeps practicing the culture and Architecture of the Ancients Egyptians, From the distance if you saw the Groundnut pyramid you'll thought that you're in Egypt.

Groundnut pyramids were pyramid-like structures made from groundnut sacks. The pyramids were built in Hausa Land of northern Nigerian cities such as Kano and Kebbi, where groundnut production was a key part of the economy. They were viewed as both a tourist attraction and a symbol of wealth. In the 1960s and 70s, as production in Nigeria shifted from agriculture to oil, the groundnut pyramids disappeared. Recently, the Nigerian government has made efforts to revive the groundnut industry and rebuild the pyramids.

Groundnut pyramids were built all across northern Nigeria, in cities like Kofar Mazugal, Brigade, Bebeji, Malam Madori and Dawakin Kudu.The pyramids became synonymous with Nigeria's agricultural wealth; a postage stamp even featured a groundnut pyramid. However, as groundnut production declined in the 1970s and 80s the groundnut pyramids disappeared and were replaced with buildings.

Apart from Groundnut pyramid there's another grain pyramid made from Rice and other farming stuff across many Hausa City states, the recent grain pyramid is the Rice pyramid of Kebbi which is introduced  in order to Eradicate Starvation in Nigeria 🇳🇬. The pyramids are a collection of nearly 100,000 bags of 70kg rice paddies harvested from various fields of Kebbi state farms.

REVIVAL EFFORT FROM GOVERNMENT:

The Nigerian government has made efforts to revive the groundnut industry and rebuild the pyramids. However, some say that the pyramids may not be revived due to the volume of groundnut consumed by companies across the country. But On February 24, 2014, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development launched a groundnut value chain project. This project is a joint venture between the Federal Government (FG) of Nigeria and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Their aim is twofold: to increase Nigeria's groundnut production and rebuild the groundnut pyramids.[6] President Goodluck Jonathan reiterated the government's desire to rebuild the pyramids in a bridge dedication speech in March 2015.

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