The Yerwa Kanuri are a Kanuri subgroup alongside manga Kanuri that live in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Sudan. They speak Central Kanuri, a Nilo-Saharan...

The Kanuri people (Kanouri, Kanowri, also Yerwa, Barebari and several subgroup names) are an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former...

dialects, Manga Kanuri and Yerwa Kanuri (also called Beriberi, which its speakers consider to be pejorative), were spoken by 9,700,000 people in Central Africa...

by the Yerwa Kanuri who are the largest subgroup of Kanuri people in West and Central Africa today. Yerwa Kanuri is the largest of the Kanuri varieties...

million people, in the metropolitan area. The region was home to the Kanem–Bornu Empire for centuries. Maiduguri actually consists of two cities: Yerwa to...

1922 and previous to that served as Shehu of Dikwa. In 1907 he founded Yerwa as the capital. Abubakar Garbai was the son of Shehu Ibrahim Kura of Borno...

of Yerwa in 1951 after supporting a strike of Native Administration workers. In 1916, Imam was born into an aristocratic Kanuri family from the Yerwa district...

in the Teda and Kanuri languages, and hence a geographic term. During the first millennium, as the Sahara underwent desiccation, people speaking Kanembu...

Borno State has been occupied by ISWAP. The state has a predominance of Kanuri people, while other ethnic groups such as Lapang, Babur/Bura, Mafa and Marghi...

many of the Damboa people end up becoming half Kanuri and Half Marghi although there are still pure Marghi family as well as pure Kanuri family even as at...