List of rulers of Kano
Emir of Kano | |
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![]() 19th century flag of the Kano Emirate | |
Incumbent | |
![]() Gate to the royal Gidan Rumfa | |
Aminu Ado Bayero since 9 March 2020 | |
Details | |
Style | Sarki Emir |
First monarch | |
Formation | 998 |
Residence | Gidan Rumfa Gidan Makama Filin Chiranchi |
Appointer | Taran Kano (Hereditary) |
This is a list of rulers of Kano since the establishment of the Bagauda Dynasty in 998. The early rulers are known almost exclusively from a single source, the Kano Chronicle,[1] which was composed in the late 19th century.[2]
Bagauda dynasty (998–1809)[]
Names and dates taken from John Stewart's African States and Rulers (1989):[3]
Kings (998 – 1349)[]
# | Name | Reign Start | Reign End |
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1 | Bagauda (or Yakano) | December 998 | January 1063 |
2 | Warisis (or Warisi) | January 1063 | January 1095 |
3 | Gajemasu (or Gijimasu) | January 1095 | November 1133 |
4 | Nawata (joint ruler with twin brother Gawata) | November 1133 | October 1135 |
5 | Gawata (joint ruler with twin brother Nawata) | ||
6 | Yusa (or Tsaraki) | October 1135 | December 1193 |
7 | Naguji | December 1193 | May 1247 |
8 | Gujjua (or Gugua) | May 1247 | January 1290 |
9 | Shekarau I (or Shekkarau I) | January 1290 | July 1306 |
10 | Tsamiya (or Tsamia; also Barandamasu) | July 1306 | June 1342 |
11 | Usmanu Zamnagawa (or Osumanu Zamnagawa) | June 1342 | March 1349 |
Sultans (1349 – 1807)[]
# | Name | Reign Start | Reign End |
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12 | Yaji I | March 1349 | February 1385 |
13 | Bugaya | February 1385 | December 1389 |
14 | Kanejeji | December 1389 | May 1409 |
15 | Umaru | May 1409 | January 1421 |
16 | Dauda | January 1421 | January 1437 |
17 | Abdullahi Burja | January 1437 | January 1452 |
18 | Dakauta | January 1452 (One night) | |
19 | Atuma | January 1452 | February 1452 |
20 | Yakubu | February 1452 | September 1462 |
21 | Muhammad Rumfa | September 1462 | August 1498 |
22 | Abdullahi | August 1498 | May 1508 |
23 | Muhammad Kisoki | May 1508 | August 1564 |
24 | Yakufu | August 1564 | January 1565 |
25 | Dauda Abasama I | January 1565 | March 1565 |
26 | Abu Bakr Kado | March 1565 | May 1572 |
27 | Muhammad Shashere | May 1572 | January 1582 |
28 | Muhammad Zaki | January 1582 | December 1617 |
29 | Muhammad Nazaki | December 1617 | November 1622 |
30 | Kutumbi | November 1622 | January 1648 |
31 | Al-Hajj | January 1648 | January 1649 |
32 | Shekkarau II | January 1649 | December 1650 |
33 | Muhammad Kukuna | December 1650 | December 1651 |
34 | Soyaki | December 1651 | |
- | Muhammad Kukuna (Restored) | December 1651 | September 1659 |
35 | Bawa | September 1659 | 1670 |
36 | Dadi | 1670 | May 1702 |
37 | Muhammad Sharefa | May 1702 | July 1730 |
38 | Kumbari | July 1730 | February 1743 |
39 | Al-Hajji Kabe | February 1743 | May 1752 |
40 | Yaji II | May 1752 | May 1768 |
41 | Babba Zaki | May 1768 | February 1776 |
42 | Dauda Abasama II | February 1776 | December 1780 |
43 | Muhammad Alwali II | December 1780 | March 1807 |
Suleiman's reign (1807–1819)[]
# | Name | Reign Start | Reign End | Notes |
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1 | 1807 | 1819 | Shehu Suleiman dan Aba Hama from the Fulani Mundubawa clan led the Jihad of Usman dan Fodio in Kano, and overthrew the almost eight-centuries old Bagauda dynasty. He pledged allegiance to the Sokoto Caliphate and became the first emir of the Kano Emirate. He was a wise and just king. |
Dabo dynasty (1819–present)[]
# | Name | Reign Start | Reign End | Notes |
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2 | Ibrahim Dabo dan Mahmudu | 1819 | 1846 | Shehu Ibrahim Dabo from the Fulani Sullubawa clan was a mystic and scholar. He is the eponymous founder of the Dabo dynasty as the khalifa of Emir Suleiman which has ruled Kano for over two hundred years. |
3 | Usman I Maje Ringim dan Dabo | 1846 | 1855 | Son of Dabo |
4 | Abdullahi Maje Karofi dan Dabo | 1855 | 1883 | Son of Dabo |
5 | Muhammadu Bello dan Dabo | 1883 | 1893 | Son of Dabo |
6 | Muhammadu Tukur dan Bello | 1893 | 1894 | |
7 | Aliyu Babba dan Maje Karofi | 1894 | 1903 | Aliyu was on a visit to Sokoto in 1903 when Kano fell to the British during the Battle of Kano. Aliyu gathered his forces on a long march to retake the city but his cavalry was annihilated by the Lord Lugard at the sanguinary Battle of Kwatarkwashi. His brother Wambai Abbas was proclaimed Emir by the British and Aliyu subsequently went on a Mahdist Hijra north into the Sahara but was captured by the French and handed over to the British who exiled him to Yola and then Lokoja |
8 | Muhammad Abbass dan Maje Karofi | 1903 | 1919 | First Emir to reign under the Kano Emirate Council. |
9 | dan Maje Karofi | 1919 | 1926 | |
10 | Abdullahi Bayero dan Abbas | 1926 | 1953 | Bayero was a scholarly-king who promoted traditional Islamic education and encouraged trade in the city-state |
11 | Muhammadu Sanusi I dan Bayero | 1953 | 1963 | Sanusi I was the first Emir to be dethroned by the government |
12 | Muhammad Inuwa dan Abbas | April 1963 | October 1963 | Second shortest reign after Sultan Dakauta (who reigned for one night in January 1452) |
13 | Ado Bayero (San Kano) dan Abdu Bayero | 1963 | 2014 | Ado Bayero had the longest reign in the royal history of the city-state spanning over five decades. His reign started three years before the fall of the first republic and saw 14 heads of state and 17 state governors. His funeral was the largest gathering in the modern history of northern Nigeria. May his soul rest in peace. |
14 | Muhammadu Sanusi II dan Nadawaki Aminu dan Muhammadu Sanusi I | 2014 | 2020 | Sanusi II was the first Sullubawa prince since the 19th century founding of the Dabo dynasty to become emir not through royal primogenitureship. His six-year reign marks also the first to usher in a dynastic generational-shift away from the old regime of 1903; he is the second emir to be dethroned after his grandfather Sir Sanusi I |
15 | Aminu Ado Bayero dan Ado | 2020 | present |
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Hausa rulers[]
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See also[]
References[]
- ^ Palmer, Herbert Richmond, ed. (1908), "The Kano Chronicle", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 38, pp. 58–98 – via Internet Archive; in Google Books.
- ^ Lovejoy, Paul E. (2018). "The Kano Chronicle Revisited". In Toby Green; Benedetta Rossi (eds.). Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past. Leiden: Brill. pp. 400–421. ISBN 9789004380189.
- ^ Stewart, John (1989). African States and Rulers. London: McFarland. pp. 147–148. ISBN 0-89950-390-X.
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