Ibrahim Kura of Borno

Ibrahim or Ibrahim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-c. 1885) was Shehu of Borno from c. 1884 to c. 1885.

Ibrahim or Ibrahim Kura
ReignNovember 1884 to February or March 1885 - October 1885 to February 1886[1]
PredecessorBukar Kura
SuccessorAshimi of Borno
Born1840s
DiedOctober 1885 to February 1886
Borno
Burial
Kukawa
DynastyKanemi
FatherUmar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin
ReligionMuslim

Reign of Ibrahim

Ibrahim became Shehu of Borno in 1884 at the death of his brother Bukar Kura. His uncle, Abba Masta Kura had been recognised Shehu before him but Ibrahim succeeded to bribe his way to the throne. His one-year reign was marked by an intense political crisis in Kukawa.[2][3]

Footnotes
  1. Lavers, John, "The Al- Kanimiyyin Shehus: a Working Chronology" in Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs, 268, Bd. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1993: 179-186.
  2. Louis Brenner, The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973), pp.86-88.
  3. Herbert Richmond Palmer, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269.

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