Bukar Kura of Borno explained

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

Bukar or Bukar Kura bin Umar al-Kanemi (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] [3]

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:

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Notes and References

  1. http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/1826/LAVERS_1993.pdf 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. Herbert Richmond Palmer, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269.