Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervend... more Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervendoring, served as pilgrim agents, etc. Many were integrated into the Kano society thus impacting on regional inter-group relations. The data for the study were collected through oral interviews with people in Kano and Zinder in addition to the use of written sources. The paper discovered that there is peaceful coexistence amongst the Zinder region migrants and their host. They are engaged in mutual economic activities which strengthen their social relations and contribute to socioeconomic and political development of Kano and Zinder region.
The article examines the spread of the Influenza Pandemic into Kano, its impact, government respo... more The article examines the spread of the Influenza Pandemic into Kano, its impact, government response, and people's reaction to the malady. Quite many works exist on the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 with Nigeria receiving good attention. However, little or no attention is accorded to the impact of the pestilence on Kano despite being one of the areas worst affected in mortality rates. Kano alone lost thirty-six thousand lives, consisting mostly of young married women out of over fifty-six thousand deaths recorded in northern Nigeria. Influenza struck at a period people were busy trying to adjust to the serious dislocations created by the imposition of British colonial rule. This heightened their predicament from the novel disease. The article used and analyzed archival sources and extant literature in presenting its findings. The article argued that deaths and suffering from the pandemic were inevitable in Kano because when it struck, the people had already been emasculated by the British colonial policies that emphasized cash crop production and taxation. In addition, the entire emirate had only two medical care facilities, a European hospital and a dispensary for "natives." These were grossly adequate in attending to the victims of the disease. Available evidence did not also suggest serious quarantine, self and institutional isolation, physical and social distancing, or lockdown measures to curtail the spread of the disease among the Kano people. They were rather forced to depend on traditional healing practices in dealing with a colonial disease.
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, Sep 21, 2021
This article examines how a state campaign against an unprecedented rise in drug and substance ab... more This article examines how a state campaign against an unprecedented rise in drug and substance abuse became enmeshed in domestic politics characterized by interethnic rivalry due to the monopolization of patent medicine enterprises by migrants in Kano, the most populous state of Nigeria. In 2013, Kano ranked first in the hierarchy of drug and substance abuse because of poorly regulated patent medicine enterprises aggravated by the unscrupulous practices of some entrepreneurs. Using extant sources, this article explores and analyzes the degree of influence that domestic politics exercised in the campaign against drug and substance abuse in Kano from 1999 to 2016. The Kano state government-led campaign against new dimensions of drug and substance abuse worked through the exercise of effective control over patent medicine enterprises in Sabon Gari. This campaign was frustrated by politics, resistance, and litigation in ways that allowed the problem to persist.
Kano was one of the important Emirates of Northern Nigeria brought under the British rule in 1903... more Kano was one of the important Emirates of Northern Nigeria brought under the British rule in 1903. The provision of health services to the rural populace by the colonial regime in the Emirate was not quite efficient. In fact until 1931, no medical facilities were provided outside urban Kano. It was from early 1930s that the colonial regime decided to make Native Authorities (N.A.s) to be agencies for development. Following the Kano N.A. under Emir Abdullahi Bayero embarked on training of rural dispensers and construction of dispensaries in selected district headquarters. The paper examines and analyses the establishment of rural dispensaries in Kano, the challenges encountered and the concerted effort made by the Kano leaders and dispensers to popularize the acceptance of medical works among the rural dwellers.. We used documentary and non-documentary sources to present the content of the article.
Culture, migration and development: the dynamics of relations between Zinder region (Niger) and Kano (Nigeria), 2018
Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervend... more Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervendoring, served as pilgrim agents, etc. Many were integrated into the Kano society thus impacting on regional inter-group relations. The data for the study were collected through oral interviews with people in Kano and Zinder in addition to the use of written sources. The paper discovered that there is peaceful coexistence amongst the Zinder region migrants and their host. They are engaged in mutual economic activities which strengthen their social relations and contribute to socioeconomic and political development of Kano and Zinder region.
Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervend... more Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervendoring, served as pilgrim agents, etc. Many were integrated into the Kano society thus impacting on regional inter-group relations. The data for the study were collected through oral interviews with people in Kano and Zinder in addition to the use of written sources. The paper discovered that there is peaceful coexistence amongst the Zinder region migrants and their host. They are engaged in mutual economic activities which strengthen their social relations and contribute to socioeconomic and political development of Kano and Zinder region.
The article examines the spread of the Influenza Pandemic into Kano, its impact, government respo... more The article examines the spread of the Influenza Pandemic into Kano, its impact, government response, and people's reaction to the malady. Quite many works exist on the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 with Nigeria receiving good attention. However, little or no attention is accorded to the impact of the pestilence on Kano despite being one of the areas worst affected in mortality rates. Kano alone lost thirty-six thousand lives, consisting mostly of young married women out of over fifty-six thousand deaths recorded in northern Nigeria. Influenza struck at a period people were busy trying to adjust to the serious dislocations created by the imposition of British colonial rule. This heightened their predicament from the novel disease. The article used and analyzed archival sources and extant literature in presenting its findings. The article argued that deaths and suffering from the pandemic were inevitable in Kano because when it struck, the people had already been emasculated by the British colonial policies that emphasized cash crop production and taxation. In addition, the entire emirate had only two medical care facilities, a European hospital and a dispensary for "natives." These were grossly adequate in attending to the victims of the disease. Available evidence did not also suggest serious quarantine, self and institutional isolation, physical and social distancing, or lockdown measures to curtail the spread of the disease among the Kano people. They were rather forced to depend on traditional healing practices in dealing with a colonial disease.
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, Sep 21, 2021
This article examines how a state campaign against an unprecedented rise in drug and substance ab... more This article examines how a state campaign against an unprecedented rise in drug and substance abuse became enmeshed in domestic politics characterized by interethnic rivalry due to the monopolization of patent medicine enterprises by migrants in Kano, the most populous state of Nigeria. In 2013, Kano ranked first in the hierarchy of drug and substance abuse because of poorly regulated patent medicine enterprises aggravated by the unscrupulous practices of some entrepreneurs. Using extant sources, this article explores and analyzes the degree of influence that domestic politics exercised in the campaign against drug and substance abuse in Kano from 1999 to 2016. The Kano state government-led campaign against new dimensions of drug and substance abuse worked through the exercise of effective control over patent medicine enterprises in Sabon Gari. This campaign was frustrated by politics, resistance, and litigation in ways that allowed the problem to persist.
Kano was one of the important Emirates of Northern Nigeria brought under the British rule in 1903... more Kano was one of the important Emirates of Northern Nigeria brought under the British rule in 1903. The provision of health services to the rural populace by the colonial regime in the Emirate was not quite efficient. In fact until 1931, no medical facilities were provided outside urban Kano. It was from early 1930s that the colonial regime decided to make Native Authorities (N.A.s) to be agencies for development. Following the Kano N.A. under Emir Abdullahi Bayero embarked on training of rural dispensers and construction of dispensaries in selected district headquarters. The paper examines and analyses the establishment of rural dispensaries in Kano, the challenges encountered and the concerted effort made by the Kano leaders and dispensers to popularize the acceptance of medical works among the rural dwellers.. We used documentary and non-documentary sources to present the content of the article.
Culture, migration and development: the dynamics of relations between Zinder region (Niger) and Kano (Nigeria), 2018
Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervend... more Lemo, Kurnar-Asabe are engaged in Islamic scholarship, currency exchange, bread-baking, watervendoring, served as pilgrim agents, etc. Many were integrated into the Kano society thus impacting on regional inter-group relations. The data for the study were collected through oral interviews with people in Kano and Zinder in addition to the use of written sources. The paper discovered that there is peaceful coexistence amongst the Zinder region migrants and their host. They are engaged in mutual economic activities which strengthen their social relations and contribute to socioeconomic and political development of Kano and Zinder region.
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