The Bulumkutu Yan Nono Market in Maiduguri

When the name Bulumkutu in Maiduguri the capital city of Borno State is mentioned, perhaps, to some,

what comes to mind is the ugly Maitatsine uprising in the eighties, while to others, the ever bubbling

GSM market or the rusty rail track that leads to the extreme southern part of Nigeria comes to mind.
Zainab Adam in this report however looks at the Bulumkutu Yan’nono, noted for trading fura and nono, a local drink popular not only in the north but most parts of Nigeria.
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