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Ali V Minargema
Ali V (ʿAlī bin Ibrāhīm), called Ali Minargema and Ali Delatumi, was the last ''List of mais of Kanem–Bornu, mai'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire, ruling in 1846. Life Ali's father, Ibrahim IV of Bornu, Ibrahim IV, had served as a puppet ruler under the ''List of shehus of Bornu, shehu'' Umar of Borno, Umar and had been killed in a civil war attempting to restore the power of the ''mai''. Ibrahim had been supported by Wadai Sultanate, which proclaimed Ali as the new ''mai'' after Ibrahim's death, installing him at Kukawa. When Umar's armies advanced to recapture Kukawa from the Wadai forces, Ali's allies abandoned him and retreated. Ali was left with a relatively small number of supporters, about a thousand spearmen and a thousand swordsmen, primarily of Kanembu people, Kanembu Sugurti origin. Ali's force met Umar's in battle at Minarge, near the River Yo. Umar was quickly victorious. Ali and many of his supporters were killed during their retreat. The name "Minargema" is deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mais Of Kanem–Bornu
The ''mai'' (sometimes translated as king or emperor) was the monarch of the Kanem–Bornu Empire from its foundation 700 until the ''mai''s were replaced as rulers by the List of shehus of Bornu, ''shehu''s in the mid-19th century. The line of ''mai''s is largely reconstructed through the ''girgam'', the empire's royal chronicle. The ''girgam'' was preserved through oral tradition before transcriptions by European scholars in the mid-19th century. The ''girgam'' is not entirely reliable since it was preserved orally and contains some contradictions between different versions. There is however a large degree of agreement across different versions of the ''girgam'' as to the names of rulers and the lengths of their reigns. Because the slightly different versions of the ''girgam'' and a lack of precise dates, names and lengths of reign assigned to the ''mai''s may differ in different sources. For the sake of comparison, this list includes dates from different authors for each ruler. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |