Places & Peoples

My trip to Kano was amazing but without doubt the highlight of the trip was the Durbar festival. I was shocked to find out how many...

An interesting part of any culture are the sports people engage in. I didn’t experience any sports during my time in Kano but it seemed...

If you’re like me, you may have grown up hearing tuwo all the time but not knowing what it was. I’m sure some people here are thinking,...

Today, it’s easy to mistake Fulani or Kanuri clothing for Hausa or vice versa. So when I spoke to the historian in Kano, clothing was one...

So let’s start in the beginning. I don’t really like talking about the history of the ethnic groups because so much is contested. I don’t...