Kanuri people
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The Kanuri people are an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon, as well as a diaspora community residing in Sudan
A group of young Kanuri people
Ceremonial bodyguard of the Sheikh of Bornou in his full regalia, after a drawing by a British visitor in the 1820s. The mounted knight was central to the Bornu state, and many Kanuri people still value horsemanship and horses.
Photograph of Kanuri women dancing (1910s)
Photograph of Kanuri women dancing (1910s)
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
Kanuri people
…Kanuri people (also Barnawi, Yerwa, Barebari and several other subgroup names) are an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon, as well as a diaspora community residing in Sudan. Those generally termed Kanuri include several…
"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