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In the shadow of the new Empire Stadium at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 was the "Walled City" (based on the red mud walls of Kano in northern Nigeria), which housed the pavilions and exhibits from the West African nations of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Nigeria and Sierra Leone. At one side of this was the native village, which was home to craftsmen from the three countries who had come to Wembley to show the world their way of life and craft skills between April and October 1924.
The attached photograph shows some of the families in the Nigerian native village, including silversmiths, a weaver and a tailor from Kano, leatherworkers from Maiduguri, and woodcarvers from Oyo and a potter from Ilorin. It is from an album donated in 1964 to Wembley History Society, and now held at Brent Archives. '
