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Kanem

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Kanem (känēm`), former empire in Africa in the areas near Lake Chad that are now part of Chad and N Nigeria. The empire began in the 9th cent., when the Sefawa migrated to the area from the Sahara. The rulers eventually embraced Islam and extended their control to neighboring Bornu Bornu , former Muslim state, mostly in NE Nigeria, extending S and W of Lake Chad. It began its existence as a separate state in the late 14th cent. From the 14th to the 18th cent. Bornu exported slaves, eunuchs, fabrics dyed with saffron, and other goods to N Africa.
..... Click the link for more information. . After attacks by the Bulalas forced the rulers of Kanem to shift their capital to Bornu (c.1380), Bornu gradually emerged as the center of a revitalized empire of which Kanem became a protectorate.
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3% (83,500) nomads in a rural population of 900,000 in the Chari-Baguirmi and Kanem Districts of Chad (10): these figures are probably underestimated because during the census period (April), several nomadic groups would have been seasonally located across the border in neighboring countries.
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By the 13th century, Kanem dominated the entire region as a state but collapsed in the 18th century with the invasion of Fulani Jihadists led by the famous Usman Dan Fodio.
Yobe state: Nigeria's success story by Butt, Monique / New African
 
 
 
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