Ibrahim Kura or Ibrahim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-c. 1885) was the ''
shehu'' 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 ...
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 ...
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[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 Discoveries in North and Central Africa''(London: Longman, 1857).
* Brenner, Louis, ''The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu'', Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973).
* Cohen, Ronald, ''The Kanuri of Bornu'', Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Holt, 1967).
* Isichei, Elizabeth, ''A History of African Societies to 1870'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 318–320, .
* Lange, Dierk, 'The kingdoms and peoples of Chad', in ''General history of Africa'', ed. by Djibril Tamsir Niane, IV (London: Unesco, Heinemann, 1984), pp. 238–265.
* Last, Murray, ‘Le Califat De Sokoto Et Borno’, in ''Histoire Generale De l'Afrique'', Rev. ed. (Paris: Presence Africaine, 1986), pp. 599–646.
Lavers, John, "The Al- Kanimiyyin Shehus: a Working Chronology" in ''Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs'', 268, Bd. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1993: 179-186.* Nachtigal, Gustav, ''Sahara und Sudan : Ergebnisse Sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika'' (Berlin: Weidmann, 1879).
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* Palmer, Herbert Richmond, ''The Bornu Sahara and Sudan'' (London: John Murray, 1936).
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Royalty of Borno
1840s births
1885 deaths
19th-century monarchs in Africa
19th-century Nigerian people
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