Quilted African armor for man and horse, Mounted Djermas (Zarma) warriors parading. The Djermas are a people of westernmost Niger and adjacent areas of Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana and Nigeria, their language is one of the Songhai languages, a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Because of the common language and culture, they are sometimes referred to as "Djerma-Songhai").