Sukur Cultural Landscape
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From his hilltop palace, the Hidi of Sukur looks out over terraced fields, sacred markers and the traces of a once-thriving iron-smelting industry — a complete physical record of a living society in Nigeria's Mandara hills. In 1999 UNESCO made Sukur the first African cultural landscape on the World Heritage List, honouring a place where spiritual and material culture remain visibly intertwined.
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