DispatchKano12.00°N 8.59°E
The last indigo pits at Kofar Mata
Five hundred years of dyeing in Kano has come down to a few dozen working pits and the men who still know the recipe.
Writer at large
Amina Yusuf
Reports across the north and the Middle Belt. Has spent most of the last decade on the trades that outlast the industries built over them.
Based in Kano
DispatchMaiduguri11.83°N 13.15°E
The camels still come to Maiduguri
A trade route older than the border it crosses, and a market that has quietly kept working.
DispatchArgungu12.74°N 4.53°E
The festival that depends on a river that keeps failing
Argungu is famous for one morning a year. The rest of the year is a town watching the water table.