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The impact of railway on the rural settlements of Madobi and Kwankwaso in Kano emirate is a study of the legacy of the British imperialism in Northern Nigeria. The railway, as this book argues, played an active role in the entrenchment of British colonial interests in Northern Nigeria and elsewhere in Nigeria. As the cases of rural settlements of Madobiand Kwankwaso in Kano Emirate shows, the establishment of railway stations in Northern Nigeria was closely tied to the indigenous groundnut economy.This, inadvertently, required a new, fast, and efficient haulage system, which the...

Refractories belong to a class of ceramic materials, which are employed for high temperature applications usually above 1100 deg C . Producing refractory brick from locally available materials has become necessary for each country in order to conserve the much needed foreign exchange especially for small scale industries which have little or no access to it. Refractories are usually employed in kilns, furnaces, retorts, crucibles and electrodes. In this book the physical properties of the refractory bricks produced from locally available raw materials were investigated, and compared with...