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PRI's Geo Quiz

by Carol Hills
Reprinted with permission of BBC/PRI's "The World "

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June 13, 2007

Today's answer is the Nigerian city of Kano, one of the oldest cities in West Africa and a lively trading center. The World's Carol Hills takes us on a tour and tells us that it's also become famous, and somewhat controversial for being Nigeria's center of Islam.

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