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    (Bukr Garbai, or Abubakar Garbai) CBE, was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922. Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Bornu...
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  • Ibn Abubakar Garbai was the Shehu of Borno from 1968 to 1974. Shehu Umar Ibn Abubakar Garbai (son of Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno) was the Shehu of Borno...
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    northeast Nigeria. Shehu Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai El-Kanemi (son of Shehu Umar Ibn Abubakar Garbai of Borno) has been the Shehu of Borno since 2009. He was...
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    al-Kanemi was the Shehu of Borno from 1922 to 1937. He was the son of Shehu Ibrahim Kura of Borno and brother of Shehu Abubakar Garbai. In the year 1893, the...
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    member of the old Bornu dynasty, as the first Shehu of Borno in Dikwa in 1900. In 1901, he was succeeded by his brother, Umar Abubakar Garbai, the ancestor...
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    established Abubakar Garbai of Borno as ruler. In 1903, the British victory in the Battle of Kano gave them a logistical edge in pacifying the heartland of the...
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    Shehu of Borno in 1974. At one time he was vice president of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. He was succeeded by Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai El-Kanemi...
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    Garbai formed a new capital, Yerwa, on 9 January 1907. After World War I, Deutsch-Bornu became the British Northern Cameroons. Upon Shehu Abubakar's death...
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    consists of two cities: Yerwa to the West and Old Maiduguri to the east. Yerwa was founded in 1907 by Abubakar Garbai of Borno as the capital of the Bornu...
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    Rabih az-Zubayr (category Borno State)
    Abubakar Garbai and Umar Sanda Kiarimi, accepted it. Rabih made Dikwa his capital, and there built a palace which was to win later the admiration of the...
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