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    The KanemBornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad. It was known to the Arabian geographers as the...
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    Muslim kings (or mai, as they called themselves) of the KanemBornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1380, in Borno (today...
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    Kanuri people (category Bornu Empire)
    African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon. As well as a diaspora community...
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    Niger was on the fringes of some states, including the KanemBornu Empire and the Mali Empire before more significant parts of its territory became included...
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    the state, which is the central fragment of the old Kanem-Bornu empire of the Kanuri people. Bornu, led by Shaikh al-Kanemi, had a history of resistance...
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    course of the expansion of Kanem, which was centered to the northeast of Lake Chad. Bornu, initially the western province of Kanem, became independent in...
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    West-Central African kingdom of KanemBornu Empire was centered in the Lake Chad Basin. It was known as the Kanem Empire from the 9th century CE onward...
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    Kanembu people (category Bornu Empire)
    group of Chad, generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire. The Kanembu are estimated to number 1,815,270 people, located primarily...
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  • Kanem may refer to: KanemBornu Empire, existed in modern Chad and Nigeria known to Arabian geographers from the 9th century AD onward and lasted as the...
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    several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of...
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