Nigeria, Dec. 25 -- Kaduna, the capital of the defunct Northern Region of Nigeria, was my favourite Nigerian city. Now one of the 19 legacy states of the Northern Region, Kaduna, especially its 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 signposts the best of Nigeria's unity and harmony in ethno-geographic and religious plurality. Kaduna, is were the Northerner, Southerner, the Christian, Muslim, the Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Efik, Ibiobio, Ebira, Igala, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Urhobo and others harmonised their various identities into a super identity. The shared geographic entity has Hausa as the common language.

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