Gwari

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The Gwari or Gbagyi are an ethnic group in central Nigeria. They are predominantly found in the Niger and Kaduna States and the Federal Capital Territory.^{[citation needed]}

Gwari people were often enslaved by some of the nearby Hausa-Fulani emirates.^[1]

One famous Gwari is General and former President of Nigeria Ibrahim Babangida.^[2]

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1. ^ Curtin, Philip D.; Lovejoy, Paul E. "Africans in bondage : studies in slavery and the slave trade : essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1986)", p. 240
2. ^ Helen Chapin Metz, ed. "The Babangida Government", "Nigeria: A Country Study.", Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1991. Accessed May 11, 2007.