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:

Bibliography

• Barth, Heinrich, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (London: Longman, 1857).
• Brenner, Louis, The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973).
• Cohen, Ronald, The Kanuri of Bornu, Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Holt, 1967).
• Isichei, Elizabeth, A History of African Societies to 1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 318–320, .
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• Last, Murray, ‘Le Califat De Sokoto Et Borno’, in Histoire Generale De l'Afrique, Rev. ed. (Paris: Presence Africaine, 1986), pp. 599–646.
• Lavers, John, "The Al- Kanimiyyin Shehus: a Working Chronology" in Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs, 268, Bd. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1993: 179-186.
• Nachtigal, Gustav, Sahara und Sudan : Ergebnisse Sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika (Berlin: Weidmann, 1879).
• Book: Oliver, Roland & Anthony Atmore . Africa Since 1800, Fifth Edition . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 2005 . 0-521-83615-8 .
• Palmer, Herbert Richmond, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936).
• Book: Taher, Mohamed. Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic Dynasties A Continuing Series . Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. . New Delhi . 1997 . 81-261-0403-1 .

External links

• Kanuri Studies Association

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.