Bukar Kura of Borno

Bukar or Bukar Kura
Reign December 1881 – November 1884 to February or March 1885
Predecessor Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin
Successor Ibrahim Kura
Born c. 1830
Died November 1884 to February or March 1885[1]
Borno
Burial Kukawa
Dynasty Kanemi
Father Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin
Religion Muslim

Bukar or Bukar Kura (c. 1830-c. 1884 or 1885) was Shehu of Borno from 1881 to c. 1884.

Reign of Bukar

Bukar became Shehu of Borno in 1881 at the death of his father Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin. His three-year reign was marked by a deep economic crisis which forced him to impose a tax on his subjects. In Kanuri language, this tax was called kumoreji (splitting a calabash in half) which meant that Bukar appropriated half the wealth of his subjects.[2]

Bukar as seen by Heinrich Barth

In 1851, a British expedition led by Heinrich Barth arrived in Borno. Barth met Bukar when he was around twelve and according to him he was:

the eldest son of Omar who now unfortunately seems to have the best claim to the succession, he was a child devoid of intelligence, or noble feelings

— Heinrich Barth[3]
Tomb of Bukar Kura, Kukawa, Borno State, Nigeria

Dynasty

Bukar Kura of Borno
House of Kanemi
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Umar of Borno		 4th Shehu of Borno
1881-1884		 Succeeded by
Ibrahim Kura

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Lavers, John, "The Al- Kanimiyyin Shehus: a Working Chronology" in Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs, 268, Bd. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1993: 179-186.
  2. ↑ Louis Brenner, The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973), pp.86-88.
  3. ↑ Heinrich Barth,Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (London: Longman, 1857), p.83.

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