Kano Economic City

Donald Duke's Tinapa project (official website here) used to get all the press.

With the completion of Tinapa, saturation media coverage has shifted to the Fashola/Tinubu Eko Atlantic City project, covered here by CNN.



Not as much media coverage has been granted to the KANO ECONOMIC CITY project in the ancient city of Kano. Once a major hub on the Trans-Saharan trade routes linking Sub-Saharan West Africa with North Africa (and Europe), then a major industrial and agri-business hub famous for its "groundnut pyramids", the economy of the Kano City metropolitan area has suffered in more recent years.

Politically and economically, Kano is one of the most important city-regions of the federal republic, and socio-economic development here is vital to the transformation of all of Nigeria. I heard about the Kano Economic City project some years back, and have been patiently waiting to here something about it beyond the usual blandishments and promises.

Today I found this fantastic report from The Guardian

I am not going to summarize it, you have to read it yourself. It is an AMBITIOUS project, ambitious enough for a city with the scope of Kano. I hope everything goes according to plan, and I look forward to the groundbreaking.