Sokoto (city)
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Sokoto is a major city located in extreme north-western Nigeria, near the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River. As of 2006, it had a population of over 427,760. Sokoto is the modern-day c
Sa'adu Abubakar
…Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio (1754–1817), leader of the Maliki school of Islam and the Qadiri branch of Sufism. Sa'adu Abubakar was born on 24 August 1956, in Sokoto. He is the youngest son of the 17th Sultan, Sir Siddiq Abubakar III, who held the Sultanate for over fifty years. Sa'adu Abubakar attended Barewa College…
Sultan's Place
Market at Sokoto, early 1850s
View of the city's outskirts (1890)
Sokoto Market