06/09/2023
Kano, Northern Nigeria 🇳🇬
Kano is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.
~ It is the second largest city in Nigeria after Lagos, with over four million citizens living within 449 km2(173 sq mi); located in the Savanna, south of the Sahel, Kano is a major route of the trans-Saharan trade.
~The city has been a trade and human settlement for millennia. It is the traditional state of the Dabo dynasty who since the 19th century have ruled as emirs over the city-state.
~Kano Emirate Council is the current traditional institution inside the city boundaries of Kano, and under the authority of the Government of Kano State.
~The city is one of the medieval Hausa seven kingdoms. The principal inhabitants of the city are the Hausa people.
~ Centuries before British colonization, Kano was strongly cosmopolitan with settled populations of Arab, Berber, Tuareg, Kanuri, and Fula and remains so with the Hausa language spoken as a lingua-francaby over 70 million speakers in the region.
~ Islam arrived in the city in the 11th century or earlier primarily through the trans-Saharan trade and as a result became wealthy and the commercial nerve center of the region and Northern Nigeria, and is still associated as the "center of commerce"...
