Creativity and Social Identity in Urban Transport: Tricycle Decoration in Kano Metropolis.

Abdullahi Usman Kofar-Na'Isa (1) , Oluronke Dorcas Popoola (2) , Oluwaseun Williams (3) , Idris Lawan (4)

1 BUK - Bayero University Kano
2 University of Ibadan
3 University of Lagos
4 Yusuf Maitama Sule University

As tricycles (popularly known as Adaidaita sahu) have emerged to become the dominant form of transport in Kano metropolis, a new form of decoration has emerged with them, one that is quite different from the long history of vehicle decoration in Africa. What are the features of this decoration? How does it take place? Why did it emerge? These are the issues we explore in this work. The paper was written as a field report during the Masterclass on "New Forms of Popular Transport of Goods and Persons in Nigeria” held at the Mambayya House, Gwammaja, Kano from July 2 to 7, 2018. The authors pursued their study as an ethnographic research; they conducted interviews, rode along in tricycles, and went on field visits to different important sites.

Mots clés: Urbanism in Nigeria; Kano metropolis; tricycle decoration; social identity; creativity; urban transport; Urbanism

Domaines: Science politique; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Abdullahi Usman Kofar-Na'Isa, Oluronke Dorcas Popoola, Oluwaseun Williams, Idris Lawan. Creativity and Social Identity in Urban Transport: Tricycle Decoration in Kano Metropolis.. [Research Report] IFRA-Nigeria Working Papers No. 51, IFRA-Nigeria. 2019, pp.1-28. ⟨hal-03364634v2⟩