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Old Kanuri Capitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

A. D. H. Bivar  and
P. L. Shinnie
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Extract

The general lines of Kanuri history and its chronology have been known since Barth's visit to Bornu in 1851 and 1852. During his stay at Kukawa he collected both manuscripts and oral tradition and on his material most of our knowledge of the history of Bornu and Kanem is based.

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Research Article
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The Journal of African History , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1962 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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References

1 Urvoy, Histoire de L'Empire du Bornou=Mémoires de I'IFAN, No. 7. This is an important and valuable contribution to Kanuri history but is difficult to use. Unfortunately the author died before publication and no revision or checking of references was carried out by the editor.Google Scholar

2 Bornu Sahara and Sudan and Sudanese Memoirs, 3 vols. These curious works contain, if one can sort it out, a mass of information but are uncritical and full of inaccuracies.Google Scholar

3 The expedition was a joint one of the Nigerian Federal Department of Antiquities and the University College of Ghana. In addition to the authors Mr D. S. Botting accompanied the party.Google Scholar

4 Not visited by us but described by Fremantle, in Journal of the African Society, xi, 62, 187.Google Scholar

5 Called by Urvoy Widi, west of Garoumélé. He did not, it seems, visit the site himself.Google Scholar

6 It was visited by Denham, Clapperton, and Oudney in 1823, Narrative of Travels and Discoveries, 154, and by Barth in 1851, Travels, II, 225. Neither of these accounts is helpful.Google Scholar

7 Op. cit.55.Google Scholar

8 Notes Africaines, LIII, I ff. (1953).Google Scholar

9 Bargery, Hausa-English Dictionary s.v. tubuli.Google Scholar

10 Pottery found during this journey, all of it from surface collections, has been divided between the Nigerian Government Department of Antiquities and the Department of Archaeology at the University College of Ghana.Google Scholar

11 Sudanese Memoirs, I, I.Google Scholar

12 op. cit. 27, n.2.Google Scholar

13 We should like here to express our thanks to Bilal Omer who acted as our interpreter. In spite of his lack of English his excellent command of Arabic, Kanuri, and Hausa was of great value.Google Scholar

14 At Mao, A.D.H.B. had the benefit of discussions with the Chef du Cercie and the Sultan of Mao, and is also deeply indebted to Monsieur and Madame Laverdant for their hospitality and assistance.Google Scholar

15 For a description of Dongola ware see Shinnie and Chittick, Ghazali—A Monastery in the Northern Sudan, Sudan Antiquities Service Occasional Papers v, 28–30.Google Scholar

16 Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne, ed. Dozy, and de Goeje, (Leyden 1866), 15: ‘Elle est trés petite et a un petit nombre d'habitants, gens abjects et misérables.’Google Scholar

17 Palmer, Sudanese Memoirs, I, 14.Google Scholar