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	Kano - fujiko kano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the largest city in northern Nigeria, with a population of 1,166,554 (2004).
		Kano grew prosperous raft kano on the trans-Saharan trade in gold, leather, ivory, salt and slaves, perhaps reaching kano - nite nite the height kano fanart of its wealth and power in the 14th Century, demon and kano kano mp3 when Islam gained a growing adherence.
		According to the Kano Chronicle, nite nite kano the thirty-seventh Sarkin Kano kano licks (King of Kano) kyoko kano was Mohammed Sharef (1703-1731).
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-Africa-E---K/Kano.html (517 words)

	The History of Kodokan Judo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jigoro Kano, founder of modern Judo, was born in the town of Mikage in the Hyogo Prefecture, on October 28, 1860.
		Kano's ultimate concern for the well-being of the whole individual and of the community is reflected in his teaching methods and in Judo's second guiding principle.
		Kano utilized four teaching methods in his dojo: randori (free practice of all Judo technique), kata (pre-arranged forms, considered the more technical rituals of the art), ko (his systematic lecturing), and mondo (periods of question and answer).
	judoinfo.com /jhist.htm (1641 words)

	Kano, Nigeria
		Kano grew prosperous on the trans-Saharan trade in gold, leather, ivory, salt and slaves, perhaps reaching the height of its wealth and power in the 14th Century, when Islam gained a growing adherence.
		According to the Kano Chronicle, the thirty seventh Sarkin Kano (King of Kano) was Mohammed Sharef (1703–1731).
		Kano was replaced as the centre of government for the Northern Region of Nigeria by Kaduna, and only regained administrative significance with the creation of Kano State following Nigerian Independence.
	www.creekin.net /c5373-n137-kano-nigeria.html (405 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kano
		Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the third largest city in Nigeria, in terms of geographical size, after Ibadan and Lagos.
		Kano grew to be a prosperous centre for trans-Saharan trade in gold, leather, ivory, salt and slaves, perhaps reaching the height of its wealth and power in the 14th Century, when Islam gained a growing following.
		Because Kano is north of the rail junction at Kaduna, it has equal access to the seaports at Lagos and Port Harcourt.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kano (567 words)

	Judo History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kano established his Judo school, called the Kodokan, in the Eishoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo which grew in size and later moved.
		Kano's Judo students won the competition easily, thus establishing the superiority of Judo, its popular principles and its practical techniques.
		Kano made drastic changes in ancient jujitsu to suit the needs of his time; the acceptance of change is inherent in Judo.
	www.judoinfo.com /jhist4.htm (2429 words)

	Amana Online
		Like many other ancient records, The Kano Chronicle is often lacking in continuity and historical perspective, so that on some occasions the narratives that it begins are left unfinished, while on others major events are passed over in silence but trivial episodes are set down in unnecessary detail.
		It is clear from the pages of The Kano Chronicle that for several generations a struggle went on between the new religion and the old pagan beliefs.
		The Chief of Kano was captured when the city fell, but was restored to his throne on condition that he paid a third of his revenue to Songhai as tribute.
	www.amanaonline.com /Sokoto/sokoto_1.htm (6528 words)

	Press Coverage of Islam in Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kano State is the most populous state in Nigeria its capital Kano is also the largest Muslim city in the African Savannah.
		Kano had has had its share of religious turbulences and upheavals since the Maitatsine riots of 1980 in which thousands of people and properties worth millions of naira were lost.
		In this case, a section of the political class are bent on having a state of emergency imposed on Kano State and this led some observers to believe that the Plateau State is a test case for a bigger fish which could either be Kano or Lagos.
	www.gamji.com /article6000/NEWS6411.htm (10797 words)

	Chronicle - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The typical examples of a Chronicle include: the chronicle of Jerome, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the Chinese Annals of Spring and Autumn.
		A dead chronicle is one where the author gathers his list of events up to the time of his writing, but does not record further events as they occur.
		A live chronicle is where one or more authors add to a chronicle in a regular fashion, recording contemporary events shortly after they occur.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=7507 (244 words)

	Anti-American riots rock Nigeria, protests elsewhere \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		KANO, Nigeria - At least 20 people were killed in Nigeria in anti-American riots on Saturday and thousands of demonstrators joined peace marches in London and Berlin.
		Nigerian authorities issued a shoot-on-sight order and clamped a night curfew on Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim north, after some of the most violent anti-American protests in Africa since U.S. air strikes on Afghanistan began.
		In Nigeria, the army moved tanks into Kano's Sabon Gari market area early on Saturday after Christian churches and mosques were set on fire in rioting on Friday.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/special/terror/front/1088487.html (833 words)

	Research in African Literatures--The Arabic Literary Tradition of Nigeria
		Kano did not establish itself as a major center of scholarly writing until the blossoming of the Tijaniyya there in the twentieth century, its best-known author before that being the immigrant Fulani scholar 'Abd Allah Suka (fl.
		Kano has been especially lucky, but Katsina, Bida, Kontagora, Bauchi, Ilorin, and Ibadan have all had their chroniclers, while Adam 'Abd Allah al-Iluri wrote both a history of the Yoruba and a history of Nigeria.
		Ahmad Kani, Cairo, 1987, and 'Umar 'Abd Allah, Kano, 1988.
	iupjournals.org /ral/ral28-3.html (6127 words)

	Harmatan Leather Ltd
		The oldest written records are the Kano Chronicle, said to give the history of Kano from l000 AD until the early I900s.
		Whilst the Egyptians and the Romans were the first to develop trade with the area, it was the work of Leo Africanus, a Moor, whose Arabic work, The History and Description of West Africa (translated by John Pory in l600) which made Europe aware of this region's trade and culture.
		Kano tanners have never been able to produce a tannage as good as that of the Sokoto tanners, even on skins brought in from Sokoto.
	www.harmatan.co.uk /news/articles.php (2676 words)

	kano
		Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the second largest city in Nigeria, with a population of 1,166,554 (2004).
		Kano houses a university and a railway station with trains to Lagos routed through Kaduna, while Kano International Airport lies nearby.
		Kano State government is working out plans to present a draft bill to the state's House of Assembly aimed at ensuring suitable legal framework for the Societal Re-orientation Directorate (A daidaita sahu).
	www.theramonitor.com /Jos-to-Kar/kano.php (1498 words)

	webPulaaku/Sokoto/H.A.S. Johnston/The Fulani Empire of Sokoto/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Arnett, E. J., The Rise of the Sakoto Fulani, Kano, 1927, embodying a translation or paraphrase of Sultan Iluhamonadu Bello's Infaku'l Maisuri.
		Hassan, Mallam (in conjunction with Mallam Shu'aibu), A Chronicle of Abuja, Ibadan, 1952.
		Shu'aibu, Mallam (in conjunction with Mallam Hassan), A Chronicle of Abuja, lbadan, 1952.
	www.pulaaku.net /defte/hasJohnston/biblio.html (1193 words)

	African Literature - MSN Encarta
		The form and content of early written literature of West Africa were very much influenced by certain Islamic writings which originated further north on the continent.
		Histories such as the well-known Kano Chronicle were originally written in Hausa.
		However, this epic only came to be known of centuries later, in 1883-1893, when the chronicle was transcribed by Sir Richmond Palmer.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555353/African_Literature.html (1887 words)

	Kano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		''For other uses of the word Kano see Kano (disambiguation).'' Kano is the administrative center of the Kano state and the largest city in northern Nigeria, with a population of 1,166,554 (2004).
		Before the creation of the Nigerian Nationstate, Kano was a kingdom, founded aproximately in the year 1000.
		According to the Kano Chronicle, the thirty seventh Sarkin Kano (King of Kano) was Mohammed Sharef (1703-1731).
	kano.kiwiki.homeip.net (159 words)

	Newsbrief: Alcohol Prohibition Coming to Nigerian State
		Lawmakers in the mostly Islamic northern Nigerian state of Kano have voted for a law that would impose whipping for Moslems and jail time for Christians caught drinking alcohol, the Associated Press reported Saturday.
		The move has stirred fears it will stir ethnic and religious violence in Kano, which, along with other Muslim-dominated Nigerian states, has seen waves of conflict as local authorities have attempted to impose sharia, or Islamic law, since the overthrow of the military dictatorship five years ago.
		Tensions are high this week after the killing of an estimated 500 Moslems by Christian mobs in the central state of Plateau, the AP reported.
	stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle-old/337/kano.shtml (660 words)

	The Asahina Battle Chronicle of early Sixteenth Century Japan
		He served as poet laureate of the Imagawa daimyo house in his later years, and this account is at times a travel diary, a historical chronicle, and a collection of letters and poems.
		From the eighth through the eleventh month he kept the Kano castle in Totomi provincial capital under attack, and on the twenthieth of the eleventh month Kano took his own life.
		He lent support to Kano Kagnokami, a district constable in Totomi Province and a subordinate of the Martial Defender, as they bore the same name.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/sources/asahina.htm (2352 words)

	The Jihad and the Consolidation of Sudanic Intellectual Tradition
		Sarkin Kano Muhammadu Rumfa (867-904AH/1463-1499) revived Islam with the aid of Shaykh al-Maghili who wrote the treatise on government for him[24].
		He also defended the rights of Muslim women and orphans who brought their grievances before his judicial council as observed by Christelow: “The Council’s defense of widow’s property rights was closely connected to its consistent defense of orphans rights”[54].
		The Tijjaniyya followers in Kano with the backing of Emir Abbas and his son Abdullahi Bayero who later also became the Emir (1926-1953) were part of the struggle against the colonial rule and were subsequently identified with the opposition Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU).
	www.gamji.com /article3000/NEWS3659.htm (6045 words)

	The Austin Chronicle : User Comments
		His chief admirer is Hyozo Tashiro (Asano), a gruff, scruffy-bearded scamp who proves his desire by crashing an execution and winding up in the brig.
		Kano in particular is a cypher; for all the puzzlement about his motives for joining the Shinsengumi (to have the “right to kill”) and whether he “leans that way,” we never learn much, even with intertitles and voiceover narration goosing the exposition along.
		This is no accident -- he's a blank slate onto which his suitors project their ardor -- but Oshima's choices don't exactly make the film easy to follow.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/ReaderComments/?ContainerID=141005 (557 words)

	Igba Vishigh OP: Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Emir Abbas of Kano was initiated into the Tijâniyya by Sheikh `Abd al-Wâhib Ujidud just after the commencement of World War I. This changed the state of affairs, since Abbas used his power to appoint akalai and district heads on the basis of the linkage with the Tijânniyya.
		Alfa Hashim was respected in Kano as the trainer of the Muqaddam elite of the Tijâniyya.
		In Kano, one Muhammadu Salga, who came from Ghana, was responsible for the establishment of the reformed Tijâniyya brotherhood.
	www.diafrica.org /nigeriaop/Vishigh/phd3.htm (11479 words)

	Santeria - Palo And Lukumi Organization
		The famous Kano Chronicle records the conversion of Kano's ruling dynasty by clerics from Mali, demonstrating that the imperial influence of Mali extended far to the east.
		Nonetheless, Kano and Katsina, with their famous mosques and schools, came to participate fully in the cultural and intellectual life of the Islamic world.
		Fulbe pastoralists, known in Nigeria as Fulani, began to enter the Hausa country in the thirteenth century, and by the fifteenth century they were tending cattle, sheep, and goats in Borno as well.
	www.palo.org /yoruba/earlystates.html (2630 words)

	www.geegaw.com:: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
		The short version of my plaint about the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is "too much like Twin Peaks." The hype made me expect something sprawling, messy, and revelatory - instead I found the book fastidious, sentimental, and predictable.
		Malta Kano exerts her so-called agency by initiating all interpersonal contact, yet she never actually does anything.
		I did make one mistake where I thought Malta and Creta Kano would be explicitly revealed to be Kumiko's sister and a disguised Kumiko, mostly because the ratio of female characters to female archetypes seemed way too high, and had to be content with them merely symbolizing an alternate Kumiko and her sister.
	www.geegaw.com /jour/2004/12/the_windup_bird.php (762 words)

	Hausaland walled cities and towns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Kano City walls were considered the most impressive monument in West Africa in 1903; but they have become severely eroded today, with borrow-pits for housing encroaching from both sides, and the nouveaux riches building ostentatious houses right across the old wall.
		The upper parapet was manned by archers and riflemen using loopholes in the wall; whilst cavalry moved rapidly around inside the walls to ensure protection at the weakest spots.
		Goats, supposedly the harbingers of environmental destruction, provide the key to environmental enhancement in the Kano close-settled zone - an extensive, densely populated area in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria.
	csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk /africanlegacy/kano_walls.htm (852 words)

	Deafness and Blindness, Disability and Inclusion, in West African Tradition and Modernity: review of books and materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kano has had an organised community of blind people for centuries and up to the present.
		The explorer Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) spent several weeks at Kano in 1824 and remarked on the high prevalence of smallpox and of blindness.
		The legendary origin of the blind community is given in the 'Kano Chronicle', probably composed in the 18th or 19th century from early records.
	www.disabilityworld.org /03-04_01/resources/bookreviews.shtml (3361 words)

	AMINA OF HAUSALAND
		The Abuja Chronicle and Infaku'l Maisuri of Sultan Muhammadu Bello both describe her as a daughter of the ruling house but not as a ruler in her own right and the traditional list of Hausa rulers contained in the Labarun Hausawa da Makwabtansu does not mention her at all.
		This need not surprise us: Muslim chroniclers often left out women rulers or lessened the significance of their actions.
		But the Kano Chronicle describes her as a ruler who flourished in the early fifteenth century.
	www.cwo.com /~lucumi/amina.html (592 words)

	Salon \| Books: The wind-up Bird Chronicle
		From the beginning, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" has the easy authority of the work of a natural-born storyteller, and each eccentric character and odd development only adds to the anticipation that Murakami will tie it all up in a satisfying resolution.
		The first 600 pages of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" offer much unadulterated reading pleasure, and it's only as the remaining pages grow ominously sparse that the proverbial sinking feeling sets in.
		Like the mark in a brilliant con game, I closed "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" feeling somewhat bereft, but still so dazzled by Murakami's skill that I couldn't quite regret having come along for the ride.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1997/11/24review.html (472 words)

	Hausaland
		The essays below consider three main stages in the history of pre-modern Hausaland.
		They tend to focus on the Hausa city of Kano, since a major written source, the
		While Kano developments were certainly not the same as those of the other Hausa cities, understanding the history of Kano provides a good introduction to the history of this region as a whole.
	webusers.xula.edu /jrotondo/Kingdoms/Hausaland/HausaHistNarr.htm (165 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel: Books: Haruki Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature.
		When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture of the Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
		The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is about a man who is desperately trying to accept the fact that not everything (and in fact, possibly nothing) in the world is concrete.
	www.amazon.com /Wind-Up-Bird-Chronicle-Novel/dp/0679775439 (2999 words)

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