Bornu may refer to: Bornu Empire, a historical state of West Africa Borno State, Nigeria This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

The Kanem–Bornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad. It was known to the Arabian geographers as the...

and south of the lake, where they established the Bornu Empire. By the late 16th century the Bornu empire had expanded and recaptured the parts of Kanem...

the Kanem Empire was forced to move after unsuccessful wars, becoming the Bornu Empire before regaining strength and ruling the wider area for the next...

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 community...

Aliyu Mai-Bornu (1919 – 23 February 1970) was a Nigerian economist, and the first indigenous Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Mai-Bornu was born...

The Borno Emirate or Sultanate, sometimes known as the Bornu Emirate, is a traditional Nigerian state that was formed at the start of the 20th century...

Bornu Yassa is a town in Borno State, north-east Nigeria near Titiwa, some 80 kilometres south of the border with Niger. As of 2007, it had an estimated...

Carine Bornu (born 28 April 1975) is a French former professional tennis player. Bornu reached a career high ranking of 242 in the world and won two ITF...

and included the emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate and parts of the former Bornu Empire, conquered in 1902. The first High Commissioner of the protectorate...

The Bornus Consort is a Polish male vocal sextet for early music founded in 1981, and led by musicologist Marcin Bornus-Szczyciński [pl]. It was one of...

name of the Muslim kings (or mai, as they called themselves) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1380, in...

the region, Niger was on the fringes of some states, including the Kanem–Bornu Empire and the Mali Empire before more significant parts of its territory...

dynasty were evicted from Bornu and left out of rulership by the Sudanese explorer Rabih az-Zubayr. The dynasty ruled over Bornu for almost a century from...

Hausaland, Bornu, Bagirmi and among the Jukun in Kwararafa. The Fulbe became known for their learning and understanding of Islam. The Bornu king, Mai Dunama...

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should remain at Bornu as Vice-Consul, while Denham and Clapperton were to 'explore the Country to the Southward and Eastward of Bornu, principally with...

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who advised and eventually supplanted the Sayfawa dynasty of the Kanem–Bornu Empire. In 1846, al-Kanemi's son Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin became the...

medieval Arab and Muslim historians and geographers which refer to the Kanem–Bornu Empire as the region's major centre for Islamic civilization.[citation needed]...

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the term khalifa. The Bornu Caliphate, which was headed by the Bornu emperors, began in 1472. A rump state of the larger Kanem-Bornu Empire, its rulers held...

trading center of the Bornu Empire and Emirate. Formerly known as Angorno, Ngorno, and Ngornu, Ngurno was a major trading center of Bornu during the 19th century...

the expansion of Kanem, which was centered to the northeast of Lake Chad. Bornu, initially the western province of Kanem, became independent in the late...

Dallazawa, and was a vassal to neighboring empires such as Songhai and Bornu. At its peak, Katsina's capital was a prominent city in the western Sudan...

Garbai) CBE, was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922. Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922 and previous...

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