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Ashimi Of Borno
Ashimi or Hashim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-1893) was the '' shehu'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire from 1885 or 1886 to 1893. Reign of Ashimi Ashimi became ''shehu'' of Bornu in 1885 at the death of his brother Ibrahim Kura. As it had already been the case for his two predecessors, his reign was marked by an intense political and economical crisis in Kukawa. Parfait-Louis Monteil, a French army officer who met Ashimi in 1891, believed that he had little direct involvement with the running of the kingdom; he also reported that the ''shehu'' seemed pious, rather scholarly, and was someone who hated the thought of war. In 1893, Ashimi lost two battles against Rabih az-Zubayr who was trying to invade Bornu. His nephew Kyari, who was chosen to become the new ''shehu'', assassinated him in N'galagati near Geidam Geidam is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Geidam in the northwest of the area at . On 24 April 2021 terrorists from ISWAP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Shehus Of Bornu
The ''shehu'' (sheikh) was the ruler of the late Kanem–Bornu Empire, at this stage often referred to as just Bornu or Borno, from 1809 (''de facto'') or 1846 (''de jure'') to the end of the empire in 1902. The ''shehu''s belonged to the al-Kameni dynasty, the descendants of the scholar and military leader Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi. Al-Kameni became the effective ruler of Bornu in the aftermath of the Fula jihads, supplanting the power of the earlier line of rulers (the List of mais of Kanem–Bornu, ''mai''s). The ''mai'' continued to be a figurehead ruler until 1846, when the last ''mai'' was killed and al-Kanemi's son Umar assumed full power over the empire. After 1902, the line of ''shehu''s has continued to rule the non-sovereign Borno Emirate in Nigeria, one of the country's List of Nigerian traditional states, traditional states. A junior branch of the family also serves as ''shehu''s of the Dikwa Emirate, also established in 1902. Numbering The ''shehu''s are numbered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanem–Bornu Empire
The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, and Chad. The empire was sustained by the prosperous trans-Saharan trade and was one of the oldest and longest-lived List of kingdoms and empires in African history, empires in African history. The foundation and early history of the Kanem–Bornu Empire is poorly known. The state is typically dated to have been founded around the year 700, though it may have been established centuries earlier or later. The ruling Duguwa dynasty ruled from their capital Njimi in the Kanem (region), Kanem region and used the ruling title ''List of mais of Kanem–Bornu, mai''. By the 11th century, the Duguwa had been replaced by the Sayfawa dynasty and the empire had converted to Islam. Economic factors and conflict with the Bilala people caused the empire to lose Kanem in the 14th century. ''Mai'' Omar I of Kanem, Omar I re-centered the empire i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Kura
Ibrahim Kura or Ibrahim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-c. 1885) was the '' shehu'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire from 1884 to 1885 or 1885 to 1886. Reign of Ibrahim Ibrahim became ''shehu'' in 1884 at the death of his brother Bukar Kura. His uncle, Abba Masta Kura had been recognised ''shehu'' before him but Ibrahim succeeded to bribe his way to the throne. His one-year reign was marked by an intense political crisis in Kukawa Kukawa (Kanuri language, Kanuri for "Baobabs"), formerly Kuka ("Baobab"), is a town and local government areas of Nigeria, Local Government Area in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno State, Borno, close to Lake Chad. History The town wa ....Louis Brenner, ''The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu'', Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973), pp.86-88.Herbert Richmond Palmer, ''The Bornu Sahara and Sudan'' (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269. Footnotes Bibliography * Barth, Heinrich''Travels and Disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyari Of Borno
Kyari or Khair bin Bukhar al-Kanemi (?–1894) was the '' shehu'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1893–1894. Reign of Kyari Kyari became ''shehu'' in 1893 when the country was invaded by Rabih az-Zubayr. One of his first acts was to kill his predecessor and uncle, Ashimi of Borno.Herbert Richmond Palmer, ''The Bornu Sahara and Sudan'' (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269. He attempted to reconquer Kukawa, which was already occupied by Rabih az-Zubayr Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah (; c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), also known as Rabih Fadlallah and usually known as Rabah in French, was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who established a powerful empire east of Lake Chad, in today's Chad. B ... but he was captured during the battle. According to oral tradition, his last words for Rabih were Footnotes Bibliography * Adeleye, Rowland, ''Power and Diplomacy in Northern Nigeria : 1804-1906, the Sokoto Caliphate and Its Enemies'' (London: Longman Group, 1971). * Amegboh, Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Kanemi Dynasty
The ''shehu'' (sheikh) was the ruler of the late Kanem–Bornu Empire, at this stage often referred to as just Bornu or Borno, from 1809 (''de facto'') or 1846 (''de jure'') to the end of the empire in 1902. The ''shehu''s belonged to the al-Kameni dynasty, the descendants of the scholar and military leader Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi. Al-Kameni became the effective ruler of Bornu in the aftermath of the Fula jihads, supplanting the power of the earlier line of rulers (the ''mai''s). The ''mai'' continued to be a figurehead ruler until 1846, when the last ''mai'' was killed and al-Kanemi's son Umar assumed full power over the empire. After 1902, the line of ''shehu''s has continued to rule the non-sovereign Borno Emirate in Nigeria, one of the country's traditional states. A junior branch of the family also serves as ''shehu''s of the Dikwa Emirate, also established in 1902. Numbering The ''shehu''s are numbered after uninterrupted periods of rule. The turbulent reigns of ''she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umar Of Borno
Umar ibn Muhammad al-Amin (; died 1881), or Umar of Borno, was '' shehu'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1837–1853 and 1854–1881. Umar was a son of Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi. Umar's father had sidelined the '' mai'' (king/emperor), the traditional ruler of the empire. Umar completed this process by abolishing the office of ''mai'' in 1846 and assuming sole ''de jure'' power over the empire, though still with his father's title of ''shehu''. Reign Umar came to power at the death of his father in 1837.Herbert Richmond Palmer, ''The Bornu Sahara and Sudan'' (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269. Umar did not match his father's vitality and gradually allowed the kingdom to be ruled by advisers ('' wazirs''). Umar's rise to become ''shehu'' had been opposed by the ''mai'' (king/emperor) Ibrahim IV, though Ibrahim failed to reassert the power and influence of his office. In 1846, Ibrahim hatched a new plan to restore his power and invited an external army from the Wadai Sultanate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shehu Ashimi Receives Monteil In Kukawa
Shehu may refer to: * Arben Shehu (born 1967), Albanian footballer * Bashkim Shehu (born 1955), Albanian writer * Mehmet Shehu (1913–1981), Albanian communist politician * Ylli Shehu (born 1966), Albanian footballer * Bujar Shehu (born 1939), Albanian basketball coach * The title of a ruler of the Borno Emirate, Nigeria * The title of a ruler of the Dikwa Emirate, Nigeria * Shehu Shagari, 6th President of Nigeria (1925–2018) * Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, 4th De facto vice president of Nigeria, (1943–1997) See also * Sheikh Sheikh ( , , , , ''shuyūkh'' ) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder (administrative title), elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim ulama, scholar. Though this title generally refers to me ... {{dab, surname Albanian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kukawa
Kukawa (Kanuri language, Kanuri for "Baobabs"), formerly Kuka ("Baobab"), is a town and local government areas of Nigeria, Local Government Area in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno State, Borno, close to Lake Chad. History The town was founded as Kuka in 1814 by Shehu of Borno, Shehu Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi of the Bornu Empire. He intended for it to serve as his capital after the fall of the previous capital, Ngazargamu. The town was the end of one of the main trans-Saharan trade routes to Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast. It was visited by German explorer Heinrich Barth in 1851 who travelled from Tripoli seeking to open trade with Europe and explore Africa, and again in 1892 by the French explorer Parfait-Louis Monteil, who was checking the borders between areas of West Africa assigned to the French language, French and the British by the Treaty of Berlin. Historically the town was much larger than today, with a population estimated by the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parfait-Louis Monteil
Parfait-Louis Monteil (1855 – 29 September 1925) was a French colonial military officer and explorer who made an epic journey in West Africa between 1890 and 1892, travelling east from Senegal to Lake Chad, and then north across the Sahara to Tripoli. Early career Monteil was the older brother of Charles Monteil (1871–1949), who became a distinguished ethologist. Monteil was a graduate of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. He served in Senegal, where his duties included cartographical surveys. In 1884 he was made a member of the ''Société de géographie de Paris'' and in 1886 became an officer of the society. He was influenced by the former governor of Senegal, Louis Faidherbe, whom he regularly visited in his apartment (where Faidherbe was confined by paralysis) in the middle 1880s. Monteil served in the French protectorate of Annam, now part of Vietnam, from 1886 to 1888. He then spent time investigating a railway project to link Bafoulabé and Bamako in Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabih Az-Zubayr
Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah (; c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), also known as Rabih Fadlallah and usually known as Rabah in French, was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who established a powerful empire east of Lake Chad, in today's Chad. Born around 1842 to an Arabic tribe in Halfaya Al-Muluk, a suburb of Khartoum, he first served with the irregular Egyptian cavalry in the Egyptian–Ethiopian War, during which he was wounded. When Rabih briefly left the army in the 1860s, he became the principal lieutenant of the Sudanese slaveholder Sebehr Rahma. Lieutenant of al-Zubayr (1874–1879) In the 19th century, Khartoum had become a very important Arab slave market, supplied through companies of ''Khartumi'' established in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, where they resided in zaribas (), thornbush-fortified bases kept by bāzinqirs (firearm-equipped slave soldiers, borrowed from ). The warlord and slaveholder al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur assumed control of the region's zaribas a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geidam
Geidam is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Geidam in the northwest of the area at . On 24 April 2021 terrorists from ISWAP seized Geidam killing 11 people, and over 6,000 residents were displaced. However, the Nigerian Armed Forces retook the town after an offensive against the terrorists. It has an area of 4,357 km² and a population of 157,295 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 632. Education *Mai-Idris Alooma Polytechnic, a state government owned higher education institution established in 1993. * * Climate/ Geography Geidam has a semi-arid environment with year-round moderate to hot temperatures that average 70°C, drought, and little tree growth. Sand, grasses, and shrubs characterise the environment. Geidam Local Government Area spans 4,375 square kilometers and undergoes two well-defined seasons – the dry and rainy seasons. The average humidity in the Local Government Area is 16 percent, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royalty Of Borno
Royalty may refer to: * the mystique/prestige bestowed upon monarchs ** one or more monarchs, such as kings, queens, emperors, empresses, princes, princesses, etc. *** royal family, the immediate family of a king or queen-regnant, and sometimes his or her extended family * royalty payment for use of such things as intellectual property, music, or natural resources Music * The Royalty (band), a 2005–2013 American rock band * Royalty Records, a Canadian record label Albums * ''Royalty'' (Chris Brown album), 2015 * ''Royalty'' (EP), by EarthGang, 2018 * ''Royalty'' (mixtape), by Childish Gambino (Donald Glover), 2012 * ''The Royalty'' (album), by the Royal Royal, 2012 * '' The Royalty: La Realeza'', by R.K.M & Ken-Y, 2008 Songs * "Royalty" (Down with Webster song), 2012 * "Royalty" (XXXTentacion song), 2019 * "Royalty", by Conor Maynard, 2015 * "Royalty", by Nas from ''The Lost Tapes 2'', 2019 Theatres * Royalty Theatre, a demolished theatre in Soho, London, England * Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
