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Kurmi Market in the city of Kano, northern Nigeria, was established in the 15th century AD by Muhammad Rumfa, one of the kings of Kano.

In centuries past, it used to be one of the major destinations for merchants in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1904, the old quadrangular market with bamboo stalls was pulled down and a new one was constructed, in order to increase earnings for the Kano Native Authority.

The new market opened in 1909 and consisted of 755 stalls built with clay.

Today, the market is still a beehive of activities, offering a vast assemblage of goods such as bags, crafts, food, jewelry, shoes, spices, textiles, and more.

Apart from Kurmi Market, some other tourist attractions in Kano include Ado Bayero Mall, Gidan Dan Hausa Museum, Gidan Makama Museum, Dala Hill, Emir’s Palace, Kano Wall, Murtala Muhammed Library, Tudun Wada, Zoological Gardens, etc.

If you ever get the opportunity to visit Kano, be sure to make out time to reach Kurmi Market – you’ll be glad you did!


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https://x.com/NaijaphiliaBlog/status/1910794335127572565

Go to China, the history of such a market would be well documented with an ultra modern market siting on the site.

Black man get factory fault. Tufiakwa!

Na only how to thief money, enter long convoy, argue over tribalism, fvck ashawo with state budget. Mumu race. 😂😂😂

SocialJustice:
Go to China, the history of such a market would be well documented with an ultra modern market siting on the site.

Black man get factory fault. Tufiakwa!

Na only how to thief money, enter long convoy, argue over tribalism, fvck ashawo with state budget. Mumu race. 😂😂😂

Your mother and father's are mumu, since they're blacks. They did your naming ceremony with drug money.

SocialJustice:
Go to China, the history of such a market would be well documented with an ultra modern market siting on the site.

Black man get factory fault. Tufiakwa!

Na only how to thief money, enter long convoy, argue over tribalism, fvck ashawo with state budget. Mumu race. 😂😂😂

You are a big fool and should be ashamed of just how stupid you are.

Very nice, clean and well organized market OP. Seems we regressed since colonialism.

2mch:
Very nice, clean and well organized market OP. Seems we regressed since colonialism.

You must be a BIG FOOL to think you ''regressed'' since colonialism.

Name the industries, universities, expressways, roads, hospitals, banks, that the colonialists built in their 80 year rule?

Or you can't see that everything around you was built after independence?

Could your grand or great grandparents read or write?

Mumu people.

You're not even sharp enough to know that the colonialists were here to loot your resources and nothing else.

SocialJustice:
Go to China, the history of such a market would be well documented with an ultra modern market siting on the site.

Black man get factory fault. Tufiakwa!

Na only how to thief money, enter long convoy, argue over tribalism, fvck ashawo with state budget. Mumu race. 😂😂😂

SHUT UP, FOOL.

Who told you they would build an ''ultra modern market'' at or near an ancient market in China or anywhere else?

That ruins everything and is pointless.

What is done is to maintain the old market with as pristine and authentic a character as possible, to maintain its old charm.

THAT'S the attraction.

You can build ''ultra-modern markets'' elsewhere.

Plus HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW there is no ''documentation'' on the market when you haven't been there?

And then you start insulting ''black man''?

Blasted fool with racial inferiority complex.

Just leave ''black man'' out of your sick mind, please.

Reflect7:
You must be a BIG FOOL to think you ''regressed'' since colonialism.

Name the industries, universities, expressways, roads, hospitals, banks, that the colonialists built in their 80 year rule?

Or you can't see that everything around you was built after independence?

Could your grand or great grandparents read or write?

Mumu people.

You're not even sharp enough to know that the colonialists were here to loot your resources and nothing else.

Because your people were swinging from trees does not mean other people were you big Buffon and lunatic. Who told you we did not have writing? You lunatic. This place is cleaner and more organized than London in 1903 when they were throwing shit on the roads. You fool.

2mch:
Because your people were swinging from trees does not mean other people were you big Buffon and lunatic. Who told you we did not have writing? You lunatic. This place is cleaner and more organized than London in 1903 when they were throwing shit on the roads. You fool.

Benin City, 1847 drawing by English visitor Mary Evans, showing large, multi-storey public buildings and monuments.

This was 50 years before he British invasion of Benin in 1897.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ef/5c/89/ef5c89fe551d9ca5a70b9b284342ce83.jpg


According to the UK Guardian Newspaper,

''The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have ....street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”.... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


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Now, what was that you were saying about my people ''swinging from trees''?

Reflect7:
Benin City, 1847 drawing by English visitor Mary Evans, showing large, multi-storey public buildings and monuments.

This was 50 years before he British invasion of Benin in 1897.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ef/5c/89/ef5c89fe551d9ca5a70b9b284342ce83.jpg


According to the UK Guardian Newspaper,

''The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have ....street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”.... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


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Now, what was that you were saying about my people ''swinging from trees''?

You are confused. What is your point? Does Benin City look like that today? Is it not a shit hole with holes in the road that can swallow a building? Is that not regression since colonialism? That market was well organized and clean. They built clay stalls and everyone looked clean in White, in dusty north. But you run in here insulting me about writing. How many Brits could write in 1903? It’s like you are mad and writing is your own civilization.

There were markets across Africa during that period as buying and selling of slaves was common.

2mch:
You are a big fool and should be ashamed of just how stupid you are.

Oya

Doylestown92:
Your mother and father's are mumu, since they're blacks. They did your naming ceremony with drug money.

oya

Karlovych:
There were markets across Africa during that period as buying and selling of slaves was common.

They sold your father in this market abi? Who was selling slaves in African markets? That’s a white man behavior. Barbaric.

2mch:
They sold your father in this market abi? Who was selling slaves in African markets? That’s a white man behavior. Barbaric.

So Africans weren't selling themselves as slaves for many years before it was abolished in the 19th century? You are actually retarded.

6 centuries? That's a reeaallly long time!

More than 20 generations.

Karlovych:
So Africans weren't selling themselves as slaves for many years before it was abolished in the 19th century? You are actually retarded.

Selling themselves as slaves to European lunatics who braved all types of death to come to the shores of Africa to steal and kidnap people under the gun. You descendant of fools.

NigeriaMustFly:
6 centuries? That's a reeaallly long time!

More than 20 generations.

Yes it is.