Abubakar Garbai of Borno

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

Abubakar Garbai
Shehu of Bornu
Reign	1902–1922
Predecessor	Sanda Kura
Successor	Sanda Kura
Died	1922 Borno
Burial	Kukawa
Names Abū Bakr Ġarbai b. Ibrāhīm al-Kānimī
Dynasty	Kanemi
Father	Ibrahim Kura
Religion	Muslim

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.

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  Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno by Boyd Alexander in 1906
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  The Shehu on his horse wearing quilted robes and chain mail.
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  Photograph of 6 emirs and sultans of Northern Nigeria at the Great Durbar in 1913 Kano. Among them are Abubakar Garbai (third from the left) and Muhammad Abbass, Emir of Kano.

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.
• Taher, Mohamed (1997). Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic Dynasties A Continuing Series. New Delhi: Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. ISBN 81-261-0403-1.
• 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).

External links

• Kanuri Studies Association