Abubakar Garbai of Borno

Abubakar Garbai or Bukar Garbai
Reign 1902–1922
Predecessor Sanda Wuduroma of Borno
Successor Sanda Kura of Borno
Died 1922
Borno
Burial Kukawa
Dynasty Kanemi
Father Ibrahim Kura
Religion Muslim

Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Borno from 1902 to 1922.

Reign

Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno by Boyd Alexander in 1906

Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902–1922 and previous to that served as Shehu of Dikwa. In 1907 he founded Yerwa as the headquarters of his domains in connection with the British founding a military post in the same general location.

Footnotes

    Bibliography

    • Bosworth, Clifford Edmond, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual p. 128
    • Cohen, Ronald, The Kanuri of Bornu, Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Holt, 1967).
    • Dictionary of African Historical Biography, p. 100.
    • Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th Edition (1982), Vol. VI, p. 506.
    • Isichei, Elizabeth, A History of African Societies to 1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 318–320, ISBN 0-521-45599-5.
    • Taher, Mohamed (1997). Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic Dynasties A Continuing Series. New Delhi: Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. ISBN 81-261-0403-1.
    • Tukur, Mahmud Modibbo, The Imposition of British colonial domination on the Sokoto Caliphate, Borno and neighbouring states, 1879-1914: a reinterpretation of colonial sources (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University, 1979).
    • Tukur, Mahmud Modibbo, “Shehu Abubakar Garbai Ibn Ibrahim El-Kanemi and the establishment of British rule in Borno, 1902-1914” in The Essential Mahmud, ed. Mahmud Modibbo Abubakar (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University, 1989).

    Dynasty

    Abubakar Garbai of Borno
    House of Kanemi
    Regnal titles
    Preceded by
    Sanda Wuduroma of Borno
    9th Shehu of Borno
    1902-1922
    Succeeded by
    Sanda Kura of Borno


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