These are historic weapons displayed at the Gidan Makama Museum in Kano, used during colonial conflicts and reflecting Kano’s martial past. Photo credit: Uncle Bash007 via Wikimedia Commons.
By the nineteenth…
Traditional blacksmith at work with forge, anvil, bellows and hammer shaping iron. Photo credit: Charlesnike via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tiv people of central Nigeria possess a long-standing tradition…
