BORNU

bôrˈnoo, former Muslim state, mostly in NE Nigeria, extending S and W of Lake Chad. It began its existence as a separate state in the late 14th cent. From the 14th to the 18th cent. Bornu exported slaves, eunuchs, fabrics dyed with saffron, and other goods to N Africa. Bornu reached its peak under the mai (ruler) Idris Alawma (ruled 1570–1610), when it was the leading state in the central Sudan region. Bornu declined from the 17th cent. In the early 19th cent. it was severely threatened by the Fulani but maintained its independence when Muhammad al-Kanemi (ruled 1814–35), who established a new dynasty, revived the state. However, Bornu began to decline again after c.1850 because of weak rulers, and was conquered (1893–96) by the forces of Rabih, a Sudanese slave trader. In 1898, Bornu was divided among Great Britain, France, and Germany. In 1922 the German portion became part of the British Cameroons mandate of the League of Nations.

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Savannah Nomads: A Study of the Wodaabe Pastoral Fulani of Western Bornu Province, Northern Region, Nigeria
Book by Derrick J. Stenning; Oxford University Press, 1959
Subjects: Fula (African People)
...the Wodaabe Pastoral Fulani of Western Bornu Province Northern Region, Nigeria BY...in the Northern Nigerian Provinces of Bornu, Plateau, Kano, and Katsina, were consistently...carry out a field investigation in Western Bornu. A substantial part of the results of...
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Government in Kano, 1350-1950
Book by M. G. Smith; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Fula (African People)--Nigeria--Kano State--Politics And Government, Hausa (African People)--Nigeria--Kano State--Politics And Government, Islam--Nigeria--Kano State--History, Kano State (Nigeria)--Politics And Government
...local traditions from Kebbi and Gobir. Bornu was added in, for good measure. In 1958-59...from Murzuk through Kauwar and Bilma to Bornu. Standing in the southern Sahil, in an...Shehus forces and representatives. West of Bornu only Kebbi withstood the Fulani assault...
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Nigerian Perspectives: An Historical Anthology
Book by Thomas Hodgkin; Oxford University Press, 1960
Subjects: Nigeria--History--Sources
...the Hausa States, the Fulani Empire, and Bornu, as well as with his fresh and vigorous...AH MAD IBN FARTUA Bornu: The Origin of the Saifawa Dynasty...DIWAN OF THE SULTANS OF BORNU Two Twelfth-Century Mais 70...
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Eminent Nigerians of the Nineteenth Century: A Series of Studies Originally Broadcast by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation
Book; 1960
Subjects: Nigeria--Biography, Nigeria--History
...Smith EL KANEMI OF BORNU , 65 by Robin Hallett...known leader of the Fulanis, El Kanemi of Bornu, and the Nagwamatse, the two slave-trading...refused to sign the treaty. El Kanemi of Bornu, who was moderately friendly to the explorers...
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The Nigerian Federal Election of 1959: Politics and Administration in a Developing Political System
Book by K. W. J. Post; Oxford University Press, 1963
Subjects: Elections--Nigeria, Nigeria--Politics And Government
...state, that of the 1,300,000 Kanuri people of Bornu Province. Scattered through Bornu and Adamawa Provinces in the extreme east of the...the Emir ; and a N.A. Scribe. The members for Bornu were three District Heads two of them sons of...
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The Man Who Would Be Caliph: a Sixteenth-century Sultan's Bid for an African Empire
Journal article by Stephen Cory; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Centuries, Leadership
...including the Songhay, the Kanem, the Bornu, the Mossi, the Hausa, and the Dendi. Map...Sahara. In letters written to the rulers of Bornu, Kebbi, and Songhay, al-Mansur asserted...sub-Saharan African ruler, Mai Idris Aloma of the Bornu. Most modern historians show little interest...
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The Arabic Literary Tradition of Nigeria
Journal article by John Hunwick; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, 1997
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...Gazargamu, the capital of the mais of Bornu from the 1480s, Katsina and Kano, in...some 40 km northwest of Agades. Kanem-Bornu was undoubtedly the earliest region where...greater Nigerian region by this path. Bornu, originally a province of Kanem, became...
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British Responses to Mahdist and Other Unrest in North and West Africa, 1919-1930 *
Journal article by John Fisher; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, 2006
Subjects: Africa--Political aspects, British imperialism--Research, United Kingdom--Foreign policy, United Kingdom--Military policy, World politics--Research
...route for two Muslim schoolmasters to travel to Bornu from Khartoum, Palmer had travelled from Maidugari...historical and religious connections with the Shehus of Bornu and that the Sheikhs of tribes in Bornu were regarded as the "real heads of their units...
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State Creation in Nigeria: Failed Approaches to National Integration and Local Autonomy
Journal article by Henry E. Alapiki; African Studies Review, Vol. 48, 2005
Subjects: Blacks, Conferences, Federal government, Minority & ethnic groups, Political economy, Political science, Politics
...Eastern region, the United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) and the Bornu Youth Movement (BYM) in the Northern region, and the Bendel...Abia and Imo, Delta and Edo, Oyo and Osun, Kano and Jigawa, Bornu and Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba, and Sokoto and Kebbi, and among...
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Puppet Voices and Interlocutors Language in Folk Puppetry
Journal article by Frank Proschan; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 94, 1984
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...the Ekon puppetry of the Ibibio of Nigeria. 16 Among the Bornu of northern Nigeria, the instrument takes the form of two...University Press, 1973 ). 17 R. E. Ellison, "A Bornu Puppet Show", Nigerian Field , 4 ( April, 1935 ), 89-91...
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How Adu Boahen Unlocked Ghana's History
Magazine article by Cameron Duodu; New African, October 2006
Subjects: Boahen, Albert Adu--Appreciation, Boahen, Albert Adu--Works, Ghanaian history--Portrayals, Historians--Appreciation, Historians--Works
...also where the trade routes from the Timbuctu-Jenne and Hausa-Bornu areas to the northeast and northwest, respectively terminated...strong commercial contacts especially with the Hausa states and Bornu to the northeast. "Indeed, no about-face ever occurred at any...
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Software Problems in the African Renaissance Process
Magazine article by Femi Biko; New African, November 2000
Subjects: Africa--Social aspects, Culture--Africa, Imperialism--Analysis, Slavery--Analysis, Social evolution--Analysis
...Africa between the 7th and 9th centuries, the cultural sentiments and national loyalty of the elite of Mali, then Songhay, Kanem, Bornu, the Swahili-speaking states and the ever expanding parts of Africas cultural landscape, were inevitably overwhelmed. Cultural...
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Times & Tides
Magazine article by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto; History Today, Vol. 47, December 1997
Subjects: Da Gama, Vasco--Appreciation, Explorers--Appreciation, Popular music--Personalities, Presley, Elvis--Appreciation
...prelude to the rise of the Safavids: yet the five hundredth anniversary went virtually unremarked. Ali Ghadjiden, king of Bornu, was another victim of 1497 -- but his death is hardly remembered today, let alone commemorated, though to many people at the...
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Yobe State: Nigeria's Success Story
Magazine article by Monique Butt; New African, January 2007
Subjects: Ibrahim, Alhaji Bukar Abba--Political activity, Infrastructure (Economics)--Forecasts and trends, Yobe, Nigeria--Economic aspects
...Historically, the origins of the indigenes of this part of the country can be traced back to earlier than 1085AD when the Kanen-Bornu empire prospered as a centre for Islamic education as well as a centre of control of the trans-Saharan trade through Lake Chad...
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Outriders of Empire: When European Explorers Began Venturing into the Sahara in the 18th and 19th Centuries, They Were Doing So the Name of Geographical Advancement. or Were They? Libyan Authorities Claim That They Were Land-Grabbing Imperialists, Sent to Prepare the Way for Colonisation and Exploitation
Magazine article by Anthony Sattin; Geographical, Vol. 77, January 2005
Subjects: Deserts--Research, Sahara--Description and travel
...pasha of Tripoli seems to have had no reservations about these men, because he now offered to safeguard a British mission to Bornu for the sum of 5,000 pounds sterling. Barrow commissioned Naval lieutenant Hugh Clapperton, Dr Walter Oudney and William Hillman...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bornu  - 11 results

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Bornu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BORNU bor noo, former Muslim state, mostly in NE Nigeria, extending...state in the late 14th cent. From the 14th to the 18th cent. Bornu exported slaves, eunuchs, fabrics dyed with saffron, and other goods to N Africa. Bornu reached its peak under the mai (ruler) Idris Alawma (ruled...
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Kanem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...embraced Islam and extended their control to neighboring Bornu . After attacks by the Bulalas forced the rulers of Kanem to shift their capital to Bornu (c.1380), Bornu gradually emerged as the center of a revitalized empire...
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Kukawa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...farming and salt-mining region. Kukawa was founded in 1814 by Muhammad al-Kanemi of the state of Bornu . The capital and chief commercial center of Bornu, Kukawa was also the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan caravan route to Tripoli , Libya...
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Nachtigal, Gustav
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...goos taf nakh tegal, 1834 85, German explorer in Africa. He went (1869) on a mission for the king of Prussia to the sultan of Bornu. He visited the central Sahara region and reached Khartoum in 1874. In 1884 he annexed Togoland and the Cameroons for Germany...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...centralized state to influence Nigeria was Kanem-Bornu, which probably was founded in the 8th...rulers had been converted to Islam, Kanem-Bornu expanded south of Lake Chad into present-day...lucrative trans-Saharan trade with Kanem-Bornu, and for a time had to pay tribute to it...
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