Abubakar Garbai of Borno

Abubakar Garbai or Bukar Garbai
File:Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno.jpg
Reign	1902–1922
Predecessor	Sanda Wuduroma of Borno
Successor	Sanda Kura of Borno
Died	1922 Borno
Burial	Kukawa
Dynasty	Kanemi
Father	Ibrahim Kura
Religion	Muslim

Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Borno from 1902 to 1922.

Reign

File:Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno in 1906.jpg

Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno by Boyd Alexander in 1906

Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902–1922 and previous to that served as Shehu of Dikwa. In 1907 he founded Yerwa as the headquarters of his domains in connection with the British founding a military post in the same general location.

Bibliography

• Bosworth, Clifford Edmond, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual p. 128
• Cohen, Ronald, The Kanuri of Bornu, Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Holt, 1967).
• Dictionary of African Historical Biography, p. 100.
• Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th Edition (1982), Vol. VI, p. 506.
• Isichei, Elizabeth, A History of African Societies to 1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 318–320, ISBN 0-521-45599-5.
• Tukur, Mahmud Modibbo, The Imposition of British colonial domination on the Sokoto Caliphate, Borno and neighbouring states, 1879-1914: a reinterpretation of colonial sources (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University, 1979).
• Tukur, Mahmud Modibbo, “Shehu Abubakar Garbai Ibn Ibrahim El-Kanemi and the establishment of British rule in Borno, 1902-1914” in The Essential Mahmud, ed. Mahmud Modibbo Abubakar (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University, 1989).

Dynasty

Abubakar Garbai of Borno House of Kanemi
Regnal titles
Preceded by Sanda Wuduroma of Borno	9th Shehu of Borno 1902-1922	Succeeded by Sanda Kura of Borno

External links

• Kanuri Studies Association