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  2. Hadiza Aliyu - Wikipedia

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    2009–present. Notable credit. Best known for her appearance in Ali Yaga Ali. Awards. See below. Hadiza Aliyu ( listen ⓘ), also known as Hadiza Gabon (born 1 June 1989 in Libreville, Gabon ), [2] is a Nigerian professional actress and filmmaker who acts in both Hausa and English movies. [3] Hadiza serves as an ambassador for MTN Nigeria and ...

  3. Murder of Hanifa Abubakar - Wikipedia

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    Murder of Hanifa Abubakar. Hanifa Abubakar (born April 5, 2016) was a Nigerian girl who was kidnapped and murdered by Abdumalik Tanko, the proprietor of her school Noble Kids Academy in Nassarawa, Kano State, Nigeria. [1] The case received national attention due to the young age of the victim and the manner of her death.

  4. Mandingo (film) - Wikipedia

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    Mandingo is a 1975 American historical melodrama film that focuses on the Atlantic slave trade in the Antebellum South. The film's title refers to the Mandinka people, who are referred to as "Mandingos", and described as being good slaves for fighting matches. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis for Paramount Pictures, the film was directed by ...

  5. Modal jazz - Wikipedia

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    Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece.. Though exerting influence to the present, modal jazz was most popular in the 1950s and 1960s, as evidenced by the success of Miles Davis's 1958 composition "Milestones" and 1959 album Kind of Blue, and John Coltrane's quartet ...

  6. Mandinka language - Wikipedia

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    A Mandinka speaker, recorded in Taiwan. The Mandinka language ( Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages. Mandinka belongs ...

  7. Balatarin - Wikipedia

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    Balatarin (Persian: بالاترین, lit., highest) is a Persian language social and political link-sharing website aimed primarily at Iranian audiences. Balatarin does not generate news in-house but provides a hub where users can post links to webpages of their choice, vote on their relevance or significance, and post comments.

  8. Church of the Firstborn (LeBaron family) - Wikipedia

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    The Church of the Firstborn (or the " LeBarón family ") is a grouping of competing factions of a Mormon fundamentalist religious lineage inherited, adherents believe, by a polygamous family community that had settled in Chihuahua, Mexico, by Alma Dayer LeBaron Sr. by 1924. Factions accepting leadership succession by some of Alma Dayer LeBaron ...

  9. Sufism - Wikipedia

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    Sufism (Arabic: الصوفية‎, romanized: al-Ṣūfiyya or Arabic: التصوف‎, romanized: al-Taṣawwuf) is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, asceticism, and esotericism.