Zubeiru or Zubayru bi Adama (died 1903) was a ruler of the Adamawa Emirate founded by his father, Modibo Adama. By the time he came to the throne in 1890, the emirate was threatened by the Germans, French and English. Zubeiru attempted "a hopeless, though spirited, rearguard action" against European attrition of the emirate.

Life

His rule was weakened by war against

Hayatu ibn Sa'id Shehu Hayatu ibn Sa'id ( ar, حياة بن سعيد, translit=Hayāt bin Sa‘īd; 1840 – 1898), also known as Hayatu Balda, was a 19th-century Islamic scholar and the leading Mahdist leader in the Central Sudan region. He was the great-grand ...

and then attempts to resist the Royal Niger Company and British administration under

Frederick Lugard Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 – 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, mercenary, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator. He was Governor of Hong ...

. In 1901 he was forced to flee Yola and become an exiled renegade.

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Cameroonian traditional rulers Nigerian traditional rulers African slave traders 19th-century births Year of birth unknown 1903 deaths 19th-century African businesspeople {{Cameroon-bio-stub