Abū Bakr Ġarbai b. Ibrāhīm al-Kānimī
Shehu of Bornu
Reign1902–1922
PredecessorSanda Kura of Borno
SuccessorSanda Kura of Borno
Died1922
Borno
Burial
Kukawa
DynastyKanemi
FatherIbrahim Kura
ReligionMuslim

Abu Bakr bin Ibrahim al-Kanemi (Bukr Garbai, or Abubakar Garbai) CBE, was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922.

Reign

Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 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 and the brother of Shehu Sanda Kura.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Hiribarren, Vincent (2017). A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. London: Hurst & Company. pp. 63, 106. ISBN 9781849044745.
  2. ^ Herbert Richmond Palmer, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269.

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Dynasty

Abubakar Garbai of Borno House of Kanemi Regnal titles Preceded bySanda Kura of Borno 9th Shehu of Borno 1902–1922 Succeeded bySanda Kura of Borno

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