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    The KanemBornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad. It was known to the Arabian geographers as the...
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    Muslim kings (or mai, as they called themselves) of the KanemBornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1380, in Borno (today...
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    to the region, Niger was on the fringes of some states, including the KanemBornu Empire and the Mali Empire before more significant parts of its territory...
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    His success inspired similar jihads in Western Africa. The ancient KanemBornu Empire was losing power by the mid-18th century. There was large-scale...
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    Kanuri people (category KanemBornu Empire)
    an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon, as well as a diaspora...
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    which is the central fragment of the old Kanem-Bornu empire of the Kanuri people, has efffects today. Bornu, led by Shaikh al-Kanemi, had a history of...
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    Kanembu people (category KanemBornu Empire)
    ethnic group of Chad, generally considered the modern descendants of the KanemBornu Empire. The Kanembu are estimated to number 1,815,270 people, located...
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  • after warring with Kanem since the 1370s, the Bulala people forced the Kanembu people under mai Omar ibn Idris to relocate to Bornu circa 1380, overcoming...
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    course of the expansion of Kanem, which was centered to the northeast of Lake Chad. Bornu, initially the western province of Kanem, became independent in...
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    The West-Central African kingdom of KanemBornu Empire was centered in the Lake Chad Basin. It was known as the Kanem Empire from the 9th century CE onward...
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    authority from Kanem to Borno. The civil war that disrupted Kanem in the second half of the 14th century led to the independence of Bornu. The Sayfawa,...
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    leader who advised and eventually supplanted the Sayfawa dynasty of the KanemBornu Empire. In 1846, al-Kanemi's son Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin became the...
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  • of the Kanembu and Bornu peoples created a new people and language, the Kanuri, and founded a new capital, Ngazargamu. KanemBornu peaked during the reign...
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    civil war that shattered Kanem in the second half of the 14th century led to the independence of Bornu. The Sayfawa moved to Bornu. Mai Ali Ghaji (r. 1470-1508)...
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  • Njimi (category Kanem Empire)
    Njimi was the capital of the Kanuri state of Kanem (later Kanem-Bornu), north of Lake Chad, from the 11th through the 14th centuries. Founded by the Sefawa...
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  • Ngizim people (category KanemBornu Empire)
    There are various references to Ngizim people in Kanem-Bornu history as early as the days of the Kanem civil wars in 1396. It can be said that the Ngizim...
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    Hausa were becoming one of Africa's major trading powers, competing with Kanem-Bornu and the Mali Empire. The primary exports were leather, gold, cloth, salt...
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  • Othman II (category Rulers of the Kanem Empire)
    Othman II was the emperor of Kanem-Bornu Empire from 1369 to 1371. Kessler, P. L. "Kingdoms of Central Africa - Chad". The History Files. Retrieved 2024-11-01...
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  • Idris Alooma (category Rulers of the Bornu Empire)
    Tibesti, and even the Bulala of Kanem. Of particular note is the acquisition of Aïr and Bilma, which granted Bornu strategic control over the central...
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  • Ngazargamu (category KanemBornu Empire)
    which had ruled Kanem for centuries, fled their capital of Birni Njimi due to a civil war. They settled in Bornu, a southern province of Kanem. The civil war...
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    Ilé-Ifẹ̀. Kingdom of Kanem (later Kanem-Bornu) founded by Saif. 900 – The reign of the Kingdom of Nri began. 1100 – Rulers of the Kanem empire embrace Islam...
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    people. In the 9th century as vibrant trading centers competing with Kanem-Bornu and Mali slowly developed in the Central Sudan, a collection of kingdoms...
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  • Kanem may refer to: KanemBornu Empire, existed in modern Chad and Nigeria known to Arabian geographers from the 9th century AD onward and lasted as the...
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  • Girgam (category KanemBornu Empire)
    chronicle of the KanemBornu Empire, written in Arabic. Girgam is also used as the name for written historical records in some kingdoms west of Bornu, including...
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    the last askia. Far to the east, on Lake Chad, the state of Kanem-Bornu, founded as Kanem in the 9th century, now rose to greater preeminence in the central...
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    defense or pastoral use. Little is known about the Ugandan earthworks. Kanem-Bornu's capital city, Birni N'Gazargamu, may have had a population of 200,000...
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    power in 1472 and set his capital at Bornu. Slavery and Islam are the two most enduring legacies of the Kanem-Bornu period. Slaves proved a lucrative commodity...
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    African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the southeast...
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    by wars between Wadai and the Sultanate of Darfur, Bagirmi, Masalit Kanem-Bornu. They fought for a period to rule the Wadai's regions . Under the rule...
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  • Africa; Aksum, Ethiopia, Adal, Kitara, Kilwa, and Imerina in East Africa; Kanem-Bornu, Kongo, Mwene Muji, Luba, Lunda, and Utetera in Central Africa; and Mapungubwe...
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