Ancient Kano City Walls

Kano State · Nigeria

Ancient Kano City Walls, Nigeria
Photo: Suleiman Umar, Aminu Abdullahi, Abubakar Yusuf, www.kanostreetsonosm.org.ng, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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The eroded earthen ramparts that once encircled the historic trading city of Kano. Built over centuries, they enclosed a major hub of the trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship in the Sahel.

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