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...

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 Borno (today...

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...

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

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...

the state, which is the central fragment of the old Kanem-Bornu empire of the Kanuri people. Bornu, led by Shaikh al-Kanemi, had a history of resistance...

where they established the Bornu Empire. By the late 16th century the Bornu empire had expanded and recaptured the parts of Kanem that had been conquered...

group of Chad, generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire. The Kanembu are estimated to number 1,815,270 people, located primarily...

Kanem may refer to: Kanem–Bornu Empire, existed in modern Chad and Nigeria known to Arabian geographers from the 9th century AD onward and lasted as the...

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 sole...

several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of...

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...

the transition of the beginning of the Bornu Empire. The once strong Sayfawa dynasty was forced out of Kanem and back into the nomadic lifestyle they...

chronicle of the Kanem–Bornu Empire, written in Arabic. Girgam is also used as the name for written historical records in some kingdoms west of Bornu, including...

Empire, Benin Empire, Oyo Empire, Sokoto Caliphate, Kingdom of Lunda, Luba Empire, Kanem-Bornu Empire, Ashanti Empire, Ghana Empire, Mutapa Empire, Kingdom...

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...

and Hadejia), Kanem Bornu Empire, Kebbi Kingdom, Kwararafa Kingdom, Ibibio Kingdom, Nri Kingdom, Nupe Kingdom, Oyo Empire, Songhai Empire, Warri Kingdom...

end the Bulala conquered Kanem and forced the Kanem mais to migrate to Bornu. As a result, the Bulala put their hands on Kanem, founding in the 15th century...

p. 418. ISBN 978-1-61069-954-9. "Central African History: The Kanem/Kanem-Bornu Empire (700 AD – 1893 AD) - Right for Education". 14 August 2017. Archived...

Othman II was the emperor of Kanem-Bornu Empire from 1369 to 1371. v t e v t e...

the rule of various Islamic states and empires such as the Kanem–Bornu Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, and the Hausa Kingdoms. The Sokoto Caliphate...

of Chad completed in the 11th century with the conversion of the Kanem-Bornu Empire. Christianity arrived in Chad with the French, at the end of the 19th...

the executive organs are elected every three years. Kanem–Bornu Empire "Tchad: Régions du Kanem et du Barh-el-Gazel (juillet 2016)" (PDF). UNOCHA. Retrieved...

محمد الأمين) or Umar of Borno (died 1881) was Shehu (Sheik) of the Kanem-Bornu Empire and son of Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi. Umar came to power at the death...

20th century Bornu Empire, a state which existed from 1380 to 1893 in what is now northeastern Nigeria Kanem–Bornu Empire, a former empire in modern Chad...

Muslim mai (king) and founder of the Sayfawa dynasty. He ruled the Kanem-Bornu Empire from either 1085 to 1097 or 1075 to 1086, after 'Abd ul Jalil of the...

Idris Alooma, the Mai (king) of the Kanem-Bornu Empire, who, having failed to secure support from the Ottoman Empire, expressed willingness to recognize...

reference of Fulbe around the area of the Adamawa region was in the Kanem-Bornu empire when they came as envoys of the emperor of Mali during the 13th-century...

the Kanem Empire prior to the rise of the Islamic Seyfawa dynasty in 1086.: 21  According to the Girgam, the Duguwa kings were the kings of Kanem whose...

Kure Kura Ibn Abdullahi was king of the Kanem–Bornu Empire following the death of his brother, Kuri I. He was the third of four sons of Abdullahi II who...