Kyari or Khair bin Bukhar al-Kanemi (?-1894) was ''Shehu'' of
Borno in 1893-1894.
Reign of Kyari
Kyari became ''Shehu'' of Borno in 1893 when the country was invaded by
Rabih az-Zubayr
Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah ( ar, رابح فضل الله ,رابح الزبير ابن فضل الله), usually known as Rabah in French (c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who establish ...
. 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 set to reconquer
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 al ...
already occupied by
Rabih az-Zubayr
Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah ( ar, رابح فضل الله ,رابح الزبير ابن فضل الله), usually known as Rabah in French (c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who establish ...
but was captured during the battle. According to oral tradition, his last words for
Rabih were
Dynasty
See also
*
Rabih az-Zubayr
Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah ( ar, رابح فضل الله ,رابح الزبير ابن فضل الله), usually known as Rabah in French (c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who establish ...
Footnotes
Bibliography
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* Amegboh, Joseph, and Cécile Clairval, ''Rabah : Conquérant Des Pays Tchadiens'', Grandes Figures Africaines (Paris: Dakar ; Abidjan : Nouvelles Éditions Africaines, 1976).
* 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).
* Flint, John Edgar, ''Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria'', West African History Series (London: Oxford University Press, 1960).
* Hallam, W. K. R., ''The Life and Times of Rabih Fadl Allah'' (Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1977).
* Hallam, W. K. R., ‘Rabih: His Place in History’, Borno Museum Society Newsletter, 15-16 (1993), 5-22.
* Horowitz, Michael M., ‘Ba Karim: An Account of Rabeh’s Wars’, African Historical Studies, 3 (1970), 391-402 .
* 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.* Mohammed, Kyari, Borno in the Rabih Years, 1893-1901 : The Rise and Crash of a Predatory State (Maiduguri Nigeria: University of Maiduguri, 2006).
* Monteil, P. L., De Saint-Louis À Tripoli Par Le Lac Tchad Voyage Au Travers Du Soudan Et Du Sahara, Accompli Pendant Les Années 1890-1892 (Paris: Germer Baillière, 1895).
* 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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* Tilho, Jean Auguste Marie, Tilho Mission, and France Ministère des Colonies, ''Documents Scientifiques De La Mission Tilho'' (1906–1909) (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1910).
Royalty of Borno
1894 deaths
19th-century rulers in Africa
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