We visited a few distinct neighborhoods of Kano, including the Ancient City, a walled-in medina-like area populated uniquely with Muslims. A museum inside the Ancient City is housed in a former emir's palace that dates to 1420. Inside the Ancient City is Dalla Hill. From the top of the hill you can look down onto the Ancient City and the rest of Kano that expands beyond it.
Here is a mosque outside the former emir's palace, men on horses inside the Ancient City, and a painted door to the museum:
And some views of Kano from Dala Hill:
The Christian area of the city is called Sabon Garri. Christian Nigerians live here or come here to drink and do things otherwise forbidden by Kano's sharia law. Sabon Garri is the Lagos of Kano - the streets are overcrowded with okadas (motorbikes) and exhaust from okadas is think in the air.
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