[1] The name "Mayaki" is also a rulers' title among the Sudié and Maouri: local subgroups of the Hausa people.

The neighboring municipalities are Tchaké in the north, El Allassane Maïreyrey in the northeast, Issawane in the east, Kanan-Bakaché in the southeast, Aguié in the south, Sarkin Haoussa in the southwest and Attantané in the northwest.

Before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Mayahi was part of the independent state of Gobir.

The British travel writer A. Henry Savage Landor visited the villages of Mayahi, Digaba and Gamouza in 1906 as part of his twelve-month journey across Africa.

[3] The 236 kilometer long trail for horse riders between the towns of Madaoua and Tessaoua, which ran through Mayahi, was considered one of the main transport routes in the former colony in the 1920s.