Half a century after the release of Django, Sergio Corbucci’s eponymous hero still traverses Nigeria painted on the tailgates of lorries—an enduring testament to a fascination with the Cowboy that took root among Nigerian youths in the 1920s. It found its most hotly debated expression in cowboy clubs, gangs, and societies that proliferated across Nigeria in the late 1940s. This article pieces together disparate reports of their practices to sketch the Cowboy’s history in Nigeria, arguing that Nigerian cowboy clubs, gangs, and societies identified in Hollywood and Italian Westerns’ resonant images and narratives. Cowboy clubs, gangs, and societies reassembled artifacts, ideas, and practices from diverse sources including but not limited to Westerns. They forged modern identities beyond localized tradition, colonial convention, and anti-colonial nationalism; the Cowboy’s globalized iconographies adding a sense of adventure and outlaw masculinity.