Ibrahim or Ibrahim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-c. 1885) was
Shehu of
Borno from c. 1884 to c. 1885.
Reign of Ibrahim
Ibrahim became ''Shehu'' of Borno in 1884 at the death of his brother
Bukar Kura
Bukar or Bukar Kura bin Umar al-Kanemi (c. 1830-c. 1884 or 1885) was ''Shehu'' of Borno from 1881 to c. 1884.
Reign of Bukar
Bukar became Shehu of Borno in 1881 at the death of his father Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin. His three-year reign was ma ...
. 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 (previously Kuka) is a town and Local Government Area in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, close to Lake Chad.
The town was founded in 1814 as capital of the Kanem-Bornu Empire by the Muslim scholar and warlord Muhammad al-Amin ...
.
[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.]
Dynasty
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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External links
Kanuri Studies Association
Royalty of Borno
1840s births
1885 deaths
19th-century rulers in Africa
19th-century Nigerian people
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