Kano
Kano was a commercial city for roughly a thousand years before Nigeria existed. The roads still behave as though that is the main fact about it.
The city
Kano was trading across the Sahara for roughly a thousand years before Nigeria existed, and the roads still behave as though that is the main fact about it. Its old economy is legible in what it still ships: hides from the tanneries, grain and onions from the belts around it, and the memory of the groundnut pyramids that once stood beside the rail yard. This is camel country — the dry-land north where the long haul south begins.
Kano in Ekene
Kano is a metropolis on the map, in the North West zone, at ƙ650,000 — the second most expensive city in the game. A company founded in Wudil sees it named on the founding card: Kano is the dream. And the north keeps its character from the first minute: a company founded up here starts with a camel rather than a donkey.
The special vehicle: the Gwongworo
Unlocking Kano puts the Gwongworo in your Motor Shop — no other city grants it, and it works from anywhere once earned. ƙ400,000 buys twenty-four mixed slots and a 1,300 km range — a lorry built for exactly the hauls Kano lives on, the long runs south with everything aboard. Its fares run low per head; the Gwongworo earns on bulk and distance, not on comfort.
In the motor park
The board is the northern trade itself. Leather appears in Kano's park by name — the tanneries put it there — alongside the belt crops: groundnuts, beans, onions, ginger, rice and cotton, with tomatoes racing the clock the way perishables do. Cows wait to ride south to the markets that pay for them. Among the passengers, the Almajiri is a far-northern rider, and the Jinn — the North's spirit, and one of the premium fares — favours these roads over any in the south.