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Sallah

Hausa · Hausa / Northern Nigeria; Niger; zongo communities in Ghana · Festival

Variant spelling of Salla: ritual prayer and, by extension, the Muslim festivals. Robinson glosses salla as 'prayer; divine worship and so, a service, feast'; babbar salla is the 'great' festival.

Sallah celebrations included a durbar of horsemen.

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