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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern Nigeria northeast of Kaduna. A powerful Hausa city-state, particularly in the 1600s and 1700s, it was taken by the British in 1903. It is northern Nigeria's chief industrial city.
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- proper noun A state in northern
Nigeria - proper noun The capital city of Kano State
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Examples
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Yet because so much of the world is now, if not secular, then moving toward secularization, the sort of accommodation recently seen in Kano may ultimately take hold in other developing areas as well.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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“Shariah needs to be practical,” a civil servant in Kano told Polgreen.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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“Shariah needs to be practical,” a civil servant in Kano told Polgreen.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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Yet because so much of the world is now, if not secular, then moving toward secularization, the sort of accommodation recently seen in Kano may ultimately take hold in other developing areas as well.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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A Nigerian lesbian who "married" four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, with her partners.
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The BBC's Ado Saleh in Kano says some 200 people, including the 40 state parliamentarians, attended the flag burning.
Is Saddam Sacred ? Laban 2006
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Elsewhere - the Nigerian state government in Kano sounds a fun place.
Is Saddam Sacred ? Laban 2006
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See, for example, Beverly B. Mack, "Women's Work in Kano," in In Pursuit of History: Fieldwork in Africa, ed.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The ruling party also lost control of Zamfara and Nasarawa states, but retained control in the oil-rich Niger Delta and picked-up the governorship of Kano, which is the north's most populous state.
Voting Underway in Nigerian States Where Violence Delayed Poll 2011
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The ruling party also lost control of Zamfara and Nasarawa states, but retained control in the oil-rich Niger Delta and picked-up the governorship of Kano, which is the north's most populous state.
Voting Underway in Nigerian States Where Violence Delayed Poll 2011
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