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Bornu may
refer to:
Bornu Empire, a
historical state of West
Africa Borno State,
Nigeria This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated 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...
- His
success inspired similar jihads in
Western Africa. The
ancient Kanem–
Bornu Empire was
losing power by the mid-18th century.
There was large-scale immigration...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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Kanem Empire was
forced to move
after unsuccessful wars,
becoming the
Bornu Empire before regaining strength and
ruling the
wider area for the next...
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Bornu Y****a 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...
- 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...
