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Mindelo throws the country's best-known carnival. This page does not tell you when, because nobody we could reach publishes the date.

The first Creole society formed on these islands, at a port built for the slave trade. The music that came out of it is a music about leaving.

No Cape Verdean accessibility authority was reachable. What the sourced facts do say is that the ten islands are not equally provided for.

A century ago every Yoruba town had a sacred grove. This is the largest one left, and UNESCO calls it probably the last in Yoruba culture.

A hilltop kingdom with terraced fields and the remains of an iron industry. The FCDO advises against all travel to the state it stands in.

A town lived on top of an isolated rock hill for centuries, and its palace, its court and its belfry are still up there today.

An earth wall with a fourteen kilometer radius, around a market and a palace that are still working. Kano is all but essential travel.

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.

We publish no month-by-month table. On Nigeria the question that decides a trip is not when you go but which states you can go to.

You need a visa, and visa on arrival has been abolished. There are three separate online forms and a compulsory yellow fever certificate.

There is no FCDO money page for Nigeria. What the advice does cover is card fraud, scams aimed at families abroad, and fertility treatment.

Nigeria is a malaria country and yellow fever is compulsory at the border. The health preparation starts weeks before the packing does.

Danfo buses, keke napep and shared taxis move the country. The advice on roads is inseparable from the advice on security.

The UK advises against all travel to seven states and against all but essential travel to fourteen more. This page names them rather than summarizing them.

Jollof rice is the dish everyone argues about, and the argument is the point. Nigerian cooking is regional before it is national.