Kano

Kano was a Hausa city-state on the savanna south of the Sahel, in northern Nigeria. It grew around Dala Hill, where an iron-working shrine was dedicated to the goddess Tsumburbura.

Under Muhammad Rumfa, who ruled from 1463 to 1499, Kano opened the Kurmi market and welcomed Qur'anic scholars. Facing Songhai pressure, Rumfa married a daughter of Askia the Great. The Fulani jihad ended Habe rule in 1805, and Kano became an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate, exporting dyed cloth and leather to Tripoli and Timbuktu.