Watch a bori spirit possession from the 1970s
I’ve read and written about bori but it’s something else to see it in action. Below is a video excerpt from a longer documentary I’d like to watch. You’ll also see some old school “booty shaking” here.
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The institution of tsarance
Back to Hausaland and fascinating things I learned reading “Baba of Karo”. We’ve covered marriage, divorce, and cheating spouses, now it’s time to talk about sex. Disclaimer though, tsarance kind of isn’t sex and tbvh, I found the institution slightly disturbing when it hit me how young the girls who participated in it were. In…
When your squad betrays you…
One of the reasons I started writing about history on this blog is this; I wanted to really show young Nigerians that the ancestors were more or less the same as we are today. Nothing is new under the sun, and stories like this one from “Baba of Karo” really illustrate this point, read more…
A replica of the Palace of the Emir of Katsina
When you think of “mud” buildings, I bet palaces do not come to mind first. This replica of the Palace of the Emir of Katsina is breathtaking. I shared it on tumblr last year and remembered it because it is the season of unbearable heat in Nigeria at the moment. I keep thinking of how…