Abū Bakr Ġarbai b. Ibrāhīm al-Kānimī
Shehu of Bornu
Reign	1902–1922
Predecessor	Sanda Kura of Borno
Successor	Sanda Kura of Borno
Died	1922 Borno
Burial	Kukawa
Dynasty	Kanemi
Father	Ibrahim Kura
Religion	Muslim

Abu Bakr bin Ibrahim al-Kanemi (Bukr Garbai, or Abubakar Garbai) CBE, was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922.

Reign

Bukar Garbai (or Abubakar Garbai) ibn Ibrahim was the Shehu of Bornu from 1902 to 1922 and previous to that served as Shehu of Dikwa. In 1907 he founded Yerwa as the capital. Abubakar Garbai was the son of Shehu Ibrahim Kura of Borno and the brother of Shehu Sanda Kura.^[1][2]

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  Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno by Boyd Alexander in 1906
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  Photograph of 6 emirs and sultans of Northern Nigeria at the Great Durbar in 1913 Kano. Among them are Abubakar Garbai of Borno and Muhammad Abbass.

References

Bibliography

• Bosworth, Clifford Edmond, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual p. 128
• Cohen, Ronald, The Kanuri of Bornu, Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Holt, 1967).
• Dictionary of African Historical Biography, p. 100.
• Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th Edition (1982), Vol. VI, p. 506.
• Isichei, Elizabeth, A History of African Societies to 1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 318–320, ISBN 0-521-45599-5.
• Taher, Mohamed (1997). Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic Dynasties A Continuing Series. New Delhi: Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. ISBN 81-261-0403-1.
• Tukur, Mahmud Modibbo, The Imposition of British colonial domination on the Sokoto Caliphate, Borno and neighbouring states, 1879-1914: a reinterpretation of colonial sources (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University, 1979).
• Tukur, Mahmud Modibbo, “Shehu Abubakar Garbai Ibn Ibrahim El-Kanemi and the establishment of British rule in Borno, 1902-1914” in The Essential Mahmud, ed. Mahmud Modibbo Abubakar (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University, 1989).

Dynasty

External links

• Kanuri Studies Association