Chad Basin
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The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Africa, centered approximately on Lake Chad. It has no outlet to the sea and contains large areas of semi-arid desert and savanna. The drainage basin i
Dunes in the Erg of Bilma.
Abéché, capital of Wadai, in 1918 after the French had acquired control.
People at a coronation in Chad, 2005.
Kanem–Bornu Empire
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The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, and Chad. The empire was sustained by the prosp
"Organa" and its ruler in the 14th-century European Catalan Atlas. Organa has historically been identified with Kanem–Bornu but other candidates have also been proposed.
Kanembu warriors and a chief, by Élisée Reclus (1892)
Shehu Umar Kura receives gifts from Wilhelm I of the German Empire
Shehu Ashimi receives Parfait-Louis Monteil at Kukawa