Daura

Daura is a city and local government area in Katsina State in northwestern Nigeria, regarded as the spiritual home of the Hausa people. Its emirate is counted among the seven true Hausa states, the Hausa Bakwai, and tradition holds that the hero Bayajidda reached it in about the ninth century, killed the snake Sarki at the Kusugu Well and married the local queen Magajiya Daurama. Fulani rule began in 1805 and the British installed Malam Musa as emir in 1904; the emir still reigns as a ceremonial hereditary monarch from the Kangiwa palace and hosts a Durbar of horsemen at the two Muslim festivals. The economy rests on trade and farming of sorghum, millet, onions and groundnuts, and Daura was once a caravan centre for salt, potash and cloth.