01 People · Kaduna
Amina, who built walls
Queen Amina of Zazzau →02 Place name · Niger
The Town That Gave Abuja Its Name
Old Abuja, Suleja →03 People · Kano
Alhassan Dantata: The Boy from Bebeji Who Begged in Accra
Dangote's great-grandfather and his hard start →04 Legend · Kano
Barbushe and the Shrine of Tsumburbura on Dala Hill
The priest of Dala Hill who foretold the end of his own world →05 People · Katsina
Emir Dikko: The Emir Who Went to Mecca by Way of England
A Katsina emir's 1921 pilgrimage, and the London garden he never forgot →06 People · Kano
Gidan Dan Hausa: The 'Son of Hausa' Who Was Swiss
Hanns Vischer and the first western schools in the North →07 Legend · Kano
Gidan Makama: The Temporary Palace That Became Kano's Museum
Kano's museum lives in a 15th-century house that once stood in for a palace →08 Lost history · Kano
Gidan Rumfa: A Palace Aligned to Mecca by the Stars
Kano's 500-year-old palace was lined up with Mecca without a compass →09 Legend · Katsina
Gobarau Minaret: A Mud Tower That Was Once a University
Katsina's mud minaret and the builder who saved it →10 Lost history · Kano
Kano's Groundnut Pyramids Became a Football Field
The groundnut pyramids of the North →11 Legend · Kano
Kano's Walls and the 'New Gate' of 1933
A thousand-year-old wall, fifteen gates, and one called 'new' →12 Legend · Kano
Kofar Mata: One Family's Dye Pits Since 1498
The Dabosa family and Kano's indigo pits →13 Legend · Katsina
Kusugu Well: Where a Stranger Killed the Snake Called 'King'
Bayajidda, Queen Daurama and the well at Daura →14 Legend · Zamfara
The Town That Let the Spirits Keep the Rock
Kwatarkwashi Rock →15 Lost history · Kogi
The Emirs Who Never Went Home
Lokoja's exiled emirs →16 People · Niger
The Emir Britain Removed and Brought Back
Ibrahim of Kontagora →17 Lost history · Niger
The Northern Town Where Zik and Ojukwu Began
Zungeru's shared beginnings →18 Lost history · Kebbi
"Argungu: The Fishing Festival That Made Peace Between Two Kingdoms"
How a royal friendship turned a river into a peace treaty →19 Lost history · Katsina
"Durbi Takusheyi: The Katsina Graves Full of Treasure from Far Away"
Burial mounds that show Katsina was trading with the wider world 700 years ago →20 Lost history · Sokoto
"Nana Asma'u: The Caliph's Daughter Who Sent Women Teachers Across the North"
A poet in four languages who built a travelling school for women →21 Legend · Jigawa
"Hade and Jiya: The Hunter and His Wife Who Named Hadejia"
A town named after a married couple, and the seven kingdoms that came before it →22 Lost history · Jigawa
"Birnin Kudu: The Rocks That Ring and the Painted Cattle"
Rock gongs with eleven notes and cattle paintings older than the humped cow →23 Lost history · Zamfara
"Bakolori: The Dam That Took the Farmers' Land"
A giant irrigation scheme, unpaid farmers, and the killings of April 1980 →24 Lost history · Zamfara
"Zamfara 2010: The Gold That Poisoned the Children"
How grinding gold ore at home caused one of the worst lead poisonings ever recorded →