The Kanem–Bornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad. It was known to the Arabian geographers as the...
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Kanuri people (category Kanem–Bornu Empire)
African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon, as well as a diaspora community...
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Sayfawa dynasty (redirect from Rulers of Kanem-Bornu)
Muslim kings (or mai, as they called themselves) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1380, in Borno (today...
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Niger (section Kanem–Bornu Empire (700s–1700s))
Niger was on the fringes of some states, including the Kanem–Bornu Empire and the Mali Empire before more significant parts of its territory became included...
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Sokoto Caliphate (redirect from Fulani Empire of Sokoto)
the state, which is the central fragment of the old Kanem-Bornu empire of the Kanuri people. Bornu, led by Shaikh al-Kanemi, had a history of resistance...
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who advised and eventually supplanted the Sayfawa dynasty of the Kanem–Bornu Empire. In 1846, al-Kanemi's son Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin became the sole...
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Kanembu people (category Kanem–Bornu Empire)
group of Chad, generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem–Bornu Empire. The Kanembu are estimated to number 1,815,270 people, located primarily...
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homage to Songhai in the west or to Bornu, a rival empire, in the east. Bornu's history is closely associated with Kanem, which had achieved imperial status...
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Ngizim people (category Kanem–Bornu Empire)
There are various references to Ngizim people in Kanem-Bornu history as early as the days of the Kanem civil wars in 1396. It can be said that the Ngizim...
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Jihad of Usman dan Fodio (section In Kanem-Bornu)
His success inspired similar jihads in Western Africa. The ancient Kanem–Bornu Empire was losing power by the mid-18th century. There was large-scale immigration...
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