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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books on: Bornu  - 275 results

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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)
...benefits from them. But the resurgence of Bornu in its western districts meant that the Wo aa e could not enter. Their migration into Bornu had to await the advent of more peaceful...The successful entry of the Wo aa e into Bornu was, again, associated with wider political...
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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
...367 n.2, 58; registration, 58 Bornawa lineage, 39 n.3, 74 , 244 , 370 Bornu Division, 271 ; NPC strength in, 367 Bornu Emirate, 51 , 88 , 90 , 234 Bornu Native Administration, 89 ; Native Authority, 88 Bornu North constituency, registration...
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Nations without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements
Book by James Minahan; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Nationalism--History--20th Century, World Politics--1989-
...territory around Lake Chad. By tradition the region of Bornu, west of the lake, was bestowed on the Sefwa heir...invaders, and the center of the state shifted west to Bornu. From Bornu the resurgent Kanuri, in time, reconquered Kanem and...
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The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
Book by Kemal H. Karpat; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Islam And State--Turkey, Panislamism, Turkey--History--1878-1909, Turkey--History--Mehmed V, 1909-1918
...Ottoman relations with the rulers of Bornu in Central Africa complemented the initiative in Zanzibar. Bornu ( Bernu in Ottoman documents) once had...of Tripolitania. In 1848 the ruler of Bornu, in a gesture of obedience, sent to the...
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Medieval Africa, 1250-1800
Book by Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Africa--History--To 1884
...have been impossible. The ascendancy of Bornu established by Idris Aloma continued through...lead in overthrowing it. The Islam of Bornu had, in contrast, come from Kanem, where...the state since the eleventh century. In Bornu it was the religion of the Kanuri conquerors...
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journal articles on: Bornu  - 33 results

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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...Sahara. In letters written to the rulers of Bornu, Kebbi, and Songhay, al-Mansur asserted...African ruler, Mai Idris Aloma of the Bornu. Most modern historians show little interest...
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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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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
...whose ancestors had probably arrived in Bornu and Bagirmi migrating from Mali in the...them were mobile beyond the confines of Bornu, visiting the Fezzan, Tagidda, Timbuktu...writings that have survived. 2 The long Bornu tradition of learning and its important...
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Material Life and Domestic Economy in a Frontier of the Oyo Empire during the Mid-atlantic Age*
Journal article by Akinwumi Ogundiran; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Centuries, Community, International trade, Raw materials, Social networks
...stallions from the Central Sudan (especially Hausaland and Bornu).58 The imported horses were paid for "largely with re...from the northerly neighbors (e.g., Nupe, Hausa, and Bornu) were responsible for maintaining the royal and chiefly stables...
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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
...in the Ekon puppetry of the Ibibio of Nigeria. 16 Among the Bornu of northern Nigeria, the instrument takes the form of two plates...Indiana 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
...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...
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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...
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'Self-Government Was Not Given to British West Africa on a Silver Platter': Cameron Duodu Concludes His Series on Prof Adu Boahen's Demolition of English Historical "Authorities" on the History of Ghana. A Son of the Soil Had Spoken. No One Who Wanted to Study Ghana's Past Seriously Relied upon the British Historians after That
Magazine article by Cameron Duodu; New African, November 2006
Subjects: Boahen, Adu--Speeches, lectures and essays, Ghana--History, Ghanaian history--Analysis, Historians--Services
...and eastern Gonja, Dagomba and north-eastern Asante in general, mainly because of their trade with the Hausa states and Bornu." How had the 19th century history of Ghana been treated by the three "authorities"?, Boahen wondered. This century was...
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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...
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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...
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A Forgotten Past; Chris Upton Explains Why Black History in Britain Didn't Just Begin with the Arrival of the Windrush
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 14, 2010
Subjects: Black history, Blacks--History
...Kidderminster in 1771, almost 200 years before the Windrush sailed. He was an ex-slave, the grandson of an African prince from Bornu, in what we would now call north-eastern Nigeria. Sold into slavery, he was lucky enough to avoid the West Indian plantations...


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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...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...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...lucrative trans-Saharan trade with Kanem-Bornu, and for a time had to pay tribute to...
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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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Chad
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...kings converted to Islam, the religion also practiced by the successor state of Bornu. The Wadai and Bagirmi empires arose in the 16th cent.; they warred with Bornu and in the 18th cent. surpassed it in power. By the early 1890s all of these...
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Kukawa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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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