Languages
Official
Arabic
Fulfulde
Regional
Hausa
Yoruba
[add others]
History
-with French suppressing slave trade relatively earlier than OTL, more expansion southwards
-and with less intense colonialism, Sokoto is able to grab most of Yoruba lands
-with OTL Nigeria much less colonized
-eventually (in 1930s?) has a military coup which makes it egalitarian republic
-with caliph placed outside government
-Arabic and Fulfulde in weird symbiosis as official languages