Uba Sani: A Moses out of the household of Pharaoh

K aduna, the capital city of the defunct Northern Region of Nigeria was my favourite Nigerian city. Now one of the 19 legacy states of the Northern Region, Kaduna state, especially the Kaduna city centre, which serves as the state capital is a microcosm of the larger Nigeria. Highly cosmopolitan yet reserved, liberal but conservative, modern and still ancient, Kaduna sign posted the best of Nigeria’s unity and harmony in ethno-geographic and religious plurality. Kaduna, was were the northerner, southerner, the Christian, Muslim, the Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Efik, Ibiobio, Ebira,Igala, Ijaw, Itsekiri ,Urhobo and others harmonized their various identities into a super identity that was Kaduna; ...