1000 Years Around Lake Chad

Another song which is difficult to interpret  is "The Song to the Magaram." Patterson's translation appears to capture the rep...

The following is a praise song to the Magira Aisa, a daughter of one of the most important rulers in the annals of  the Sayfawa, Dunama Diba...

The following is Patterson's translation of "The Song of the Babuma to the Sultan Ume Jilmi" from his Kanuri Songs . As a prai...

H.R. Palmer's Gazetteer of Bornu Province is what one expects from the works of Palmer. The colonial administrator moonlighting as a sch...

J.R. Patterson's Kanuri Songs are a fascinating collection of praise songs from precolonial Borno. Collected by Patterson in the 1920s f...

A fascinating performance of "Lucia Celu" by Orlando di Lasso features some words in the Kanuri language. According to Salvatore,...

Although Muhammad Bello did not reproduce in full all the letters he received from al-Kanemi of Borno, his Infāq al-Maysūr contains a pletho...