Ibrahim or Ibrahim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-c. 1885) was
Shehu of
Borno from c. 1884 to c. 1885.
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]
^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.
^Herbert Richmond Palmer, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269.
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