Heritage
Ancient Kano City Walls: Visitor and Heritage Guide
An earth wall with a fourteen kilometer radius, around a market and a palace that are still working, in a north west where the threat of kidnap is high.
- Country Nigeria
- Category Heritage
- Reviewed 20 August 2026
- Sources 2
- Length 1 min read
Credit Anasskoko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Ancient Kano City Walls are on Nigeria's Tentative List, submitted in 2007. They are not inscribed, and this is Nigeria's own account of them.
Kano is in the north west of Nigeria, where banditry and violent attacks are frequent and the threat of kidnap is high. Check current conditions locally before making any plan.
Sources
- UNESCO Tentative List: Ancient Kano City Walls and Associated Sites
- National Commission for Museums and Monuments
The description of the wall and the associated sites is from Nigeria's Tentative List submission, entry 5171, submitted in 2007. UNESCO's own index renders that entry title as "Ancient Kano City Walls and Asociated Sties"; the misspelling is the source's. All read on 20 August 2026.