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54 relations: Abubakar Ibn Umar Garba, Ali Modu Sheriff, Baba Gana Kingibe, Baggara, Bauchi State, Bilma, Borno State, Borno Youth Movement, British Empire, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Chad Basin, Chari-Baguirmi (prefecture), Diffa Region, Far North Region, Cameroon, French colonial empire, German Empire, Hausa language, Hausa people, Ibrahim Imam, Islam, Kanem (prefecture), Kanem–Bornu Empire, Kanembu language, Kanembu people, Kanuri language, Kashim Ibrahim, Lac (prefecture), Lake Chad, List of ethnic groups of Africa, List of heads of state of Niger, List of Prime Ministers of Niger, Maiduguri, Mamadou Tandja, Mamane Oumarou, Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi, Mustafa Ibn Umar El-Kanemi, N'guigmi, Niger, Nigeria, Nilo-Saharan languages, Public domain, Sani Abacha, Sayfawa dynasty, Scramble for Africa, Sunni Islam, Toubou people, University of Maiduguri, Waziri Ibrahim, ..., Yemen, Zaghawa people, Zinder, Zinder Region. Expand index (4 more) »
Abubakar Ibn Umar Garba
Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai El-Kanemi of Borno (born 1957) is the Shehu, or traditional ruler, of the Borno Emirate in northeast Nigeria.
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Ali Modu Sheriff
Ali Modu Sheriff is a Nigerian politician.
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Baba Gana Kingibe
Baba Gana Kingibe (born 25 June 1945) is a Nigerian politician and political appointee havening held many high-level Nigerian governmental posts.
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Baggara
The Baggāra are a grouping of Arab ethnic groups inhabiting the portion of Africa's Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and southern Kordofan, numbering over one million.
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Bauchi State
Bauchi, usually referred to as Bauchi State to distinguish it from the city of Bauchi, is a state in northern Nigeria.
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Bilma
Bilma is an oasis town and commune in north east Niger with a population of 4,016 people.
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Borno State
Borno, also known as Borno State, is a state in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Borno Youth Movement
Borno Youth Movement (BYM) was a Nigerian political party founded on June 26, 1954.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Cameroon
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Central Africa
Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.
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Chad
Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Chad Basin
The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Africa, centered on Lake Chad.
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Chari-Baguirmi (prefecture)
This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad.
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Diffa Region
Diffa is an administrative region in the southeast of Niger.
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Far North Region, Cameroon
The Far North Region, also known as the Extreme North Region (from Région de l'Extrême-Nord), is the northernmost constituent province of the Republic of Cameroon.
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French colonial empire
The French colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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German Empire
The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.
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Hausa language
Hausa (Yaren Hausa or Harshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afroasiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by some 27 million people, and as a second language by another 20 million.
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Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa) are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.
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Ibrahim Imam
Ibrahim Imam (1916 – April 1980) was a Kanuri politician from Borno, Nigeria who was the secretary of the Northern People's Congress and later became a patron of the Borno Youth Movement.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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Kanem (prefecture)
This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad.
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Kanem–Bornu Empire
The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire that existed in modern Chad and Nigeria.
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Kanembu language
Kanembu is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Chad by the Kanembu people.
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Kanembu people
The Kanembu are an ethnic group of Chad, generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Borno Empire.
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Kanuri language
Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people, as of 1987, in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan.
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Kashim Ibrahim
Sir Shettima Kashim Ibrahim (10 June 1910 – 25 July 1990) was a Kanuri politician who was head of the Native Administration in Borno and was a minister for Social Services in the 1950s. He held the traditional title of Waziri of the Emirate of Borno after two previous Waziris had been forced to resign as a result of scandals in the Borno local administration. He was a close associate of Ahmadu Bello.
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Lac (prefecture)
This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad.
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Lake Chad
Lake Chad (French: Lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries.
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List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.
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List of heads of state of Niger
This is a list of heads of state of Niger since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day.
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List of Prime Ministers of Niger
This is a list of Prime Ministers of Niger since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Niger in 1983 to the present day.
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Maiduguri
Maiduguri, also called Yerwa by its locals, is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Mamadou Tandja
Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Mamadou Tandja (born 1938, accessed May 20, 2007.) is a Nigerien politician who was President of Niger from 1999 to 2010.
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Mamane Oumarou
Mamane Oumarou (born 1946) is a Nigerien politician who served two brief periods as Prime Minister of Niger during the 1980s.
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Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi
Shehu al-Hajj Muhammad al-Amîn ibn Muhammad al-Kânemî (محمد لرشيد ابن محمد الكامانی) (1776–1837) was an Islamic scholar, teacher, religious and political leader who advised and eventually supplanted the Sayfawa dynasty of the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
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Mustafa Ibn Umar El-Kanemi
Shehu Mustafa Ibn Umar El-Kanemi (son of Shehu Umar Ibn Muhammad of Borno) was the Shehu of Borno from 1974 to 2009.
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N'guigmi
N'guigmi is a city and Commune of fifteen thousand in the easternmost part of Niger, very near to Lake Chad – lying on its shore until the lake retreated.
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Niger
Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Nilo-Saharan languages
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.
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Public domain
The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Sani Abacha
Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian Army officer and politician who served as the ''de facto'' President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.
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Sayfawa dynasty
Sayfawa dynasty or more properly Sefuwa dynasty is the name of the kings (or mai, as they called themselves) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1380, in Borno (today north-eastern Nigeria).
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Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa was the occupation, division, and colonization of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.
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Toubou people
The Toubou, or Tubu (from Old Tebu, meaning "rock people"), are an ethnic group inhabiting northern Chad, southern Libya, northeastern Niger and northwestern Sudan.
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University of Maiduguri
The University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) is located in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno State in northeast Nigeria.
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Waziri Ibrahim
Alhadji Waziri Kolo Ibrahim was a wealthy Kanuri businessman from Borno State, Nigeria who became a prominent politician and party leader during the Nigerian Second Republic.
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Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially known as the Republic of Yemen (al-Jumhūriyyah al-Yamaniyyah), is an Arab sovereign state in Western Asia at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Zaghawa people
The Zaghawa people, also called Beri or Zakhawa, are a Central African Muslim ethnic group of eastern Chad and western Sudan, including Darfur.
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Zinder
Zinder (locally, Damagaram), formerly also spelled Sinder, is the second largest city in Niger, with a population of 170,574 (2001 census);, citing.
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Zinder Region
Zinder Region is an administrative Region in Niger, the capital of the Region is the Commune of Zinder.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanuri_people
