Dunama III (Dunama bin Ibrāhīm
) was the ''
mai'' of the
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 ...
in 1369–1376.
Life
Dunama was the son of Ibrahim, a son of
Dawud.
Dunama succeeded his uncle
Abubakar Liyatu
Abubakar Liyatu (Abū Bakr bin Dāwūd) was the '' mai'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1368–1369.
Life
Abubakar was a son of Dawud (r. 1353–1363) and succeeded his cousin, Othman II, as ''mai'' in 1368, after Othman II's death in the war a ...
as ''mai'' in 1369.
Dunama appears to be only vaguely remembered as a ruler. His name is omitted in several sources. He is sometimes replaced or accompanied with a second figure, ''Idrīs bin Dāwūd'' (Idris, son of
Dawud), who is assigned the same regnal years.
Cohen (1966) considers it possible that neither Dunama nor Idris actually ruled as ''mai''s, that one reigned for a short period of time, or that they are two names for the same person.
Dunama was succeeded as ''mai'' by
Omar I,
his first cousin once removed.
References
Rulers of the Kanem Empire
14th-century monarchs in Africa
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