IDNO

T.172941.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Rural Kano Negs 28 to 91Q'.
44. Irrigated farms on the river Challawa, - see R.K. [Rural Kano] p.9.88." [Hill's caption]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Northern Nigeria; Kano

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Hill, Polly

Collector / Expedition

Date

November 1971

Collection Name

Polly Hill Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.773001.PH - T.773189.PH were located in a cardboard box, now numbered C773/.

T.172926.PH - T.172999.PH were located in a brown envelope, now numbered C773/2.

Bibliographical reference: Rural Kano: Hill, P. (1977) Population, prosperity and poverty : rural Kano 1900 and 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 88.
"The erection of the Power Station serving Kano city on the Challawa River in 1931 led to the building of a modern road through the district. This was, according to Leslie, ' the first event for a hundred years to enliven the annals of a District described in 1911 as "being fortunate in having no history"'!... The author was impressed by the scale of dry-season farming, both on non-irrigated rafi, which produced valuable crops of wheat and sweet potatoes, and on irrigated farms along certain streams to the east of the District and along the Challawa River, where onions, wheat and pepper were grown." [LB 14/08/2024]