Kagoro

Kagoro, also known as Gworok, is a large town in the southern part of Kaduna State, in North West Nigeria. Gworok is attractive for tourists because of its mountainous scenery and cultural events such as the Afan Festival, a national festival which is celebrated annually on 1 January.

Understand
Kagoro or Gworok is one of the towns in Southern Kaduna that had been independent until it got subjugated in the early 20th century by the British colonial troops, but not by warefare. It also happens to be the seat of one of the oldest chiefdoms in the area.

The town is a large one, mostly composed of rocky terrains with natural flowing water bodies like rivers and streams, surrounding it.

The people of the town (the Agworok, also spelt Oegworok) speak Gworok, one of the dialects of the Tyap language cluster.

Climate
Kagoro is renowned for its cool weather and high altitude. Tropical, with frequent rainstorms. The driest time of year - when the Falls may be just a trickle - is from December to April.

Get in
Kagoro is 210 km southeast of Kaduna, about 3 hours by car, or US$80 by taxi (2021).

It is 80 km west of Jos, or about 1 hr 45 min by car, and 220 km northeast of Abuja, 3 hr 40 min by car.

Kagoro also has an airstrip, active during the colonial period, which for some reason or the other had gone out of use today.

See
The town is renowned for its pristine mountainous scenery and has dozens of churches.

Buy
Gworok is a community that is known for agricultural activities, so most of the grains you know you can get them from the community at a subsidised rates. The major occupation of the community is farming.



Eat

 * Rice and ginger juice

Connect
Cellular networks like MTN, Glo, 9mobile and Airtel are used here. The network strengths vary from one part of the town to the other.

Go next

 * Jos - capital of Plateau State
 * Kafanchan - the economic capital of Southern Kaduna
 * Samaru Kataf - junction town linking Kagoro to Zonkwa and Zangon Kataf
 * Zangon Kataf - seat of the Agwatyap and home or the Ayet Atyap annual festival