Kanuri
Americannoun
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a member of a people living in northeast Nigeria and in Niger.
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the Nilo-Saharan language of the Kanuri people.
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Arewaflix will be a service "not only for Hausa films, but also for films in other languages from northern Nigeria", including Nupe and Kanuri, Amart said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Buhari's father, who died when he was four, was Fulani, while his mother, who brought him up, was Kanuri.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
There are versions in local pidgin English, Hausa, Kanuri and Fulani.
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2022
They were members of the same Kanuri ethnic group, distant cousins he’d never met or heard of.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2017
Such are the Mandingo, the Songhai, the Fula, Hausa, Kanuri, Bagirmi, Kanembu, and the peoples of Wadai and Darfur; the few aborigines who persist, on the southern fringe of the Chad basin, are imperfectly known.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
In the top eight he had three Hausas, two Kanuris, one Igbo, one Yoruba and one Nupe.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
Becoming another IS province could mean losing its ethnic appeal among Kanuris and its appeal among ordinary Nigerians for whom denunciations of corruption involving Nigeria's political elites resonate.
From US News ● Mar. 8, 2015
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