Dikwa Emirate
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The Dikwa Emirate is a traditional state located in Borno State, Nigeria. Alongside the more senior Borno Emirate, the Dikwa Emirate is a remnant of the regime of the old Kanem–Bornu Empire, ruled by
Kanuri women from the Dikwa Emirate, 1955
Ibrahim ibn Umar Ibrahim el-Kanemi, the 13th and incumbent shehu of Dikwa
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