Kano Chronicle

The Kano Chronicle is written in Arabic valuable source for the history of the city of Kano in northern Nigeria.

The chronicle was discovered at the beginning of the colonial period in Kano and translated into English by the colonial administrators HR Palmer. In Nigerian archives several, quite different versions of the Chronicle are kept. The Arabic text has been edited and published never critical.

The Chronicle is one of the six major Arab sources on the history of West Africa, which were written by native chroniclers. It deals with the history of the city of Kano by the end of the 10th century until the end of the reign of King Muhammad Bello ( 1883-1892 ) and is characterized by a relatively large interest in the pre-Islamic tradition.