1000 Years Around Lake Chad

Focusing on Kanem, Borno, Lake Chad, Sahel, and West Africa from a historical perspective

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10/3/25

Borno's Musketeers

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Whilst perusing John Hunwick's  Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'dī's Ta'rīkh Al-Sūdān Down to 1613 and Other Contempo...
10/2/25

The Fazzan and Kanem

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A view of Traghen included in Despois's study of the Fazzan's human geography in Mission scientifique du Fezzan. One aspect of the m...
10/1/25

Revisiting the Tura

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A problematic part of H.R. Palmer's list of Tura  mahrams  in the 3rd volume of  Sudanese Memoirs . One of the more interesting componen...
9/30/25

Mai Ali b. Umar in the Fazzan

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While revisiting el-Hesnawi's  Fazzan under the Rule of the Awlad Muhammad. A Study in Political, Economic, Social and Intellectual Hist...
9/28/25

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Kanemi

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Wikipedia's  Map of the Almohad state. Whilst revisiting old notes, we came across references to the poet  Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Kanemi ....
9/27/25

Birni Gazargamo: A Borno Metropolis

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  An aerial view of Birni Gazargamo in Graham's Connah's " The Daima Sequence and the Prehistoric Chronology of the Lake Chad R...
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