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...tree-shaded grounds of Kano's Central Hotel, carrion had been dumped outside the city, and by the time the royal visitors flew in last week scarcely a bird could be seen. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, representing their niece, Queen Elizabeth, were on their way to Kaduna to attend the biggest durbar (homage to princes) in northern Nigeria's history...
...timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded to be allowed to go outside and see for herself. The result: a compromise. The minister allowed his wife to go outside-but not until five in the evening, when it was still...
Beside the Kaduna River one day last week, a gaudy explosion of sound and color broke over Britain's largest colony. Spearmen whooped and saddlery creaked. Drums bongity-bongity-bongitied. Reed pipes wailed, wooden kafo horns growled out Louis Armstrong blue notes. The Emir of Kano's jester wore his best blue-dyed sheepskin wig and beard. Some of the warriors wore chain mail, wide-bladed swords or helmets of Crusader descent...
...caparisoned horsemen and another 5,000 on foot flowed out to Kaduna's racecourse and polo field to parade and maneuver before the Queen. In wave after wave, each gaudier and more dashing than the one before, they marched and charged before the royal box, where their leaders paused to salute, then move on. From a raised pavilion, the Queen accepted the homage of, among others, the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv, the Och of Idoma and the Etsu Nupe...