A coursed wall of laterite blocks survives above dry scrub at Surame in Sokoto State.
Heritage

Surame: Visitor and Heritage Guide

A Hausa kingdom of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, nine kilometers across, now walls and wells in the scrub. Sokoto is all but essential travel.
  • Country Nigeria
  • Category Heritage
  • Reviewed 20 August 2026
  • Sources 3
  • Length 1 min read

Credit DipoTayo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Surame is on Nigeria's Tentative List, submitted in 2007. It is not inscribed, and this is Nigeria's own account of it.

⚠️ The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Sokoto State. Read the current advice before making any plan.

The current position

  • The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Sokoto State.
  • It advises against all travel to neighboring Zamfara and Katsina.
  • It records frequent banditry and violent attacks and a high threat of kidnap across the north west.
  • Kidnapping for ransom is described as particularly severe in the north west, including Sokoto.
  • Read the FCDO regional risks page in full before traveling.

Sources

  1. UNESCO Tentative List: Surame Cultural Landscape
  2. UK FCDO: Nigeria regional risks
  3. National Commission for Museums and Monuments

The dates, the extent and the list of surviving features are from Nigeria's Tentative List submission for the Surame Cultural Landscape, entry 5172, submitted in 2007. The submission spells gates as "Grates"; the typo is the source's. Travel advice is from the FCDO regional risks page. All read on 20 August 2026.