Kano’s old wounds, new battles, by Engr. Bello Gwarzo Abdullahi, FNSE Family feuds have always shaped history. But in Kano, the past is not just remembered — it keeps returning in new forms. To understand today’s emirate crisis, one must revisit 1894, when the ancient city was torn apart by a royal conflict that still echoes through time. In his classic Kano Civil War and British Overrule, Dr Adamu Fika recounts the events of 1894–1895, when Kano was gripped by a civil war between two branches of the Ibrahim Dabo dynasty...