4 stories · 4 places
Along the River Niger
From where the Niger crosses into the country to where it meets the Benue and turns south.
Collections
Routes through the country
A collection is a sequence, not a tag. Each one is meant to be read in order, and each one goes somewhere.
3 stories · 3 places
The Last of the Trade
Four crafts, four towns, and four different answers to whether a trade can survive being admired.
4 stories · 4 places
Buildings We Should Remember
A fourteenth-century minaret, seven hundred years of earth wall, and a hall built to mark a hundred years of peace.
3 stories · 3 places
How We Celebrate
A river festival, a forest festival and a month of carnival — and what each one costs the town that holds it.
4 stories · 3 places
Nigerian Market Days
Grain in Kano, camels in Maiduguri, yam on the Benue and the largest market in West Africa at Onitsha.
3 stories · 3 places
Higher Ground
The plateau towns — Jos, Obudu and Idanre — where altitude changed what could be grown, built and defended.