Abubakar Garbai of Borno

(Redirected from Abubakar Garbai)

Abu Bakr bin Ibrahim al-Kanemi (Bukr Garbai, or Abubakar Garbai) CBE, was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922.

Abubakar Garbai
Shehu of Bornu
Reign1902–1922
PredecessorSanda Kura
SuccessorSanda Kura
Died1922
Borno
Burial
Names
Abū Bakr Ġarbai b. Ibrāhīm al-Kānimī
DynastyKanemi
FatherIbrahim Kura
ReligionMuslim

Reign

edit

Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922 and previous to that served as Shehu of Dikwa. In 1907 he founded Yerwa as the capital. Abubakar Garbai was the son of Shehu Ibrahim Kura of Borno and the brother of Shehu Sanda Kura.[1][2]

References

edit
  1. ^ Hiribarren, Vincent (2017). A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. London: Hurst & Company. pp. 63, 106. ISBN 9781849044745.
  2. ^ Herbert Richmond Palmer, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269.

Bibliography

edit
  • 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

edit
Abubakar Garbai of Borno
Regnal titles
Preceded by 9th Shehu of Borno
1902–1922
Succeeded by
edit