- centuries.
Maiduguri actually consists of two cities:
Yerwa to the West and Old
Maiduguri to the east.
Yerwa was
founded in 1907 by
Abubakar Garbai of Borno...
- The
Kanuri people (Kanouri, Kanowri, also
Yerwa,
Barebari and
several subgroup names) are an
African ethnic group living largely in the
lands of the former...
- The
Yerwa Kanuri are a
Kanuri subgroup alongside manga Kanuri that live in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad,
Niger and Sudan. They
speak Central Kanuri, a Nilo-Saharan...
-
Heinemann Educational, 1977), pp. 178–84 ****a, Rupert, From
Bulamari to
Yerwa to
Metropolitan Maiduguri:
Interdisciplinary Studies on the
Capital of Borno...
- At the turn of the 21st century, its two main dialects,
Manga Kanuri and
Yerwa Kanuri (also
called Beriberi,
which its
speakers consider to be pejorative)...
-
Yerwa Kanuri or
Central Kanuri is a
variety of the
Kanuri language spoken mainly in
adjacent parts of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad as well as by...
- →
Saharan →
Kanuri Kanuriland (Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon) Kanembu,
Yerwa Kanuri Islam Kao people [id] West
Papuan →
North Halmahera → Kao; West Papuan...
-
drive against corruption.: 340
Dipcharima later became the head of the
Yerwa District in 1956,
taking the
traditional title of Zanna. He won a seat in...
- of
Yerwa in 1951
after supporting a
strike of
Native Administration workers. In 1916, Imam was born into an
aristocratic Kanuri family from the
Yerwa district...
- 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...
