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Introducing Kano
Kano is the oldest city in West Africa (it was founded around 1400 years ago) and Nigeria’s third largest. It was a major crossroads in the trans-Saharan trade routes and, from the Middle Ages, an important centre for Islamic scholarship. A favoured traveller destination, Kano has terrible air pollution, with traffic fumes mixed with the dusty harmattan wind.
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As capital of a sharia state, alcohol was technically banned in 2004, although you can still get a drink in upmarket restaurants or in the bars of the Christian Sabon Gari district.
Last updated: Mar 2, 2009
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