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Travelogue
Lagos to Kano
aboard
‘Goodluck Jonathan’
A Nigerian adage has it
that the traveller is endowed
with greater knowledge
than the grey-haired
patriarch who has not seen
the world. Thus, I undertook
a journey by rail from
Kano to Lagos recently, I
was struck by how much a
two day trip could reveal.
Fables turned into truths,
dreams became realities
and doubts gave way to belief
about the country. For
me, it was an eye opener,
more than what I could
have read in a book.
The adventures of Tony Agbor!
country as its proud citizen.
Imagine landing in Jebba to read
the tombstone of Mungo Park or
hugging the historically enchanting
air of Zungeru, the birth place
of the great Zik of Africa, both in
Niger State.
I admit that I had heard about
all these in my primary and secondary
school days. Yet, they
always seemed too distant
and sounded more like
Travelling from Lagos
to Kano was like
traversing Nigeria’s
cultural heritage and
geographical expanse in all their
diversity; it was like taking in a
century’s history in forty-eight
short hours, coming face to face
with myth turned reality and
embracing the greatness of the
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