There is a town called Kwankwoso in the city of Kano. This town is where the former Governor of Kano State came from. This town was founded in 1927 and named after an Igbo trader, Chief Felix Okonkwo who traded on groundnuts.
This Igbo businessman named his company located near the Kano railways, Okonkwo & sons. The Kano indigenes then who were finding it difficult to pronounce the Igbo word OKONKWO mispronounced the man’s company as KWANKWOSONS which was later modified to KWANKWOSO. The name later became the name with which the total locality where Chief Okonkwo’s Company was located was referred to.
This was how an Igbo man founded the Kwankwaso town in Kano State. This is how many other towns, tribes and nations were developed through individual impact or through cultural adaptation and heritage. As the world is said to have come from one source, the people are once again coming together as one through migration and social integration.
