Yelwa Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
settlement in Kebbi State, Nigeria
About Yelwa
Yelwa is the market centre and trade hub of the Yauri Emirate. Besides trade, its economy centres around agriculture. Major export crops include onions, rice, and cotton, although Yelwa also produces considerable amounts of sorghum, millet, cowpeas, peanuts, sugarcane, shea nuts, tobacco, kola nuts, peppers, beans, fish, cattle, and guinea fowl. Most farmers in the Yelwa area are subsistence farmers, and most rent the land they farm or are sharecroppers. In 1996, the writer Isidro A. T. Savillo wrote a novel calledYelwa-Yauri, which includes descriptions of the town. It may be very sunny and hot, very rainy and windy with lots of thunderstorms or there is a sandstorm from the Sahara desert at a particular time of the year.
Top Attractions in Yelwa
Explore the best things to see and do in Yelwa:
- ★Germanche Shrine
Yelwa Travel Guide Sections
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