词条 | Bukar Kura of Borno |
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| name = Bukar or Bukar Kura | image = | succession = | reign = December 1881 – November 1884 to February or March 1885 | predecessor = Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin | successor = Ibrahim Kura | spouses = | issue = | dynasty = Kanemi | father = Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin | mother = | birth_date = c. 1830 | birth_place = | death_date = November 1884 to February or March 1885[1] | death_place = Borno | place of burial = Kukawa | signature = | religion = Muslim |}} Bukar or Bukar Kura (c. 1830-c. 1884 or 1885) was Shehu of Borno from 1881 to c. 1884. Reign of BukarBukar became Shehu of Borno in 1881 at the death of his father Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin. His three-year reign was marked by a deep economic crisis which forced him to impose a tax on his subjects. In Kanuri language, this tax was called kumoreji (splitting a calabash in half) which meant that Bukar appropriated half the wealth of his subjects.[2][3] Bukar as seen by Heinrich BarthIn 1851, a British expedition led by Heinrich Barth arrived in Borno. Barth met Bukar when he was around twelve and according to him he was: {{quote|the eldest son of Omar who now unfortunately seems to have the best claim to the succession, he was a child devoid of intelligence, or noble feelings|Heinrich Barth[4]}}Dynasty{{S-start}}{{s-hou|House of Kanemi}}{{s-reg}}{{S-bef|before=Umar of Borno|years=1837–1853 and 1854-1881}}{{s-ttl|title=4th Shehu of Borno|years=1881-1884}}{{S-aft|after=Ibrahim Kura|years=1884–1885}}{{s-break}}{{s-end}}Footnotes1. ^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. 4. ^Heinrich Barth,[https://books.google.com/books?id=W8ByAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa] (London: Longman, 1857), p.83. Bibliography
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