The Kano Chronicle expressed that the Kingdom of Kano was established as one of the Seven True Hausa States or Hausa Bakwai by Baguada in 999.

The Hausa Kingdom of Kano depended on an old settlement of Dalla Hill.

Heinrich Barth, an established researcher who put in quite a while in northern Nigeria in the 1850s, evaluated the level of slaves in Kano to be no less than half, the greater part of whom lived in slave towns.

While little chiefdoms were already present in the region, as per the Kano Chronicle, Bagauda, a grandson of the legendary saint Bayajidda,.