Course curriculum

    1. Class Session 1 (04-06-2024)

    2. Andrea Brigaglia & Mauro Nobili – Central Sudanic Arabic Scripts (Part 2): Barnāwī

    3. John E. Lavers – Adventures in the Chronology of the States of the Chad Basin

    4. Adrian Bivar & Peter Shinnie – Old Kanuri Capitals

    5. Carlos Magnavita & Sonja Magnavita – Garumele Revisited

    6. Anne Haour & Boube Gado – Garumele, Ville Médiévale du Kanem-Borno? Une Contribution Archéologique

    1. Ahmed ibn Fartua – History of the First Twelve Years of the Reign of Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu (1571-1533)

    2. Ahmed ibn Fartua – The Kanem Wars

    3. J.W. Redhouse – Translation from the Original Arabic of an Account of Many Expeditions Conducted by the Sultan of Burnu, Idris the Pilgrim, Son of ʾAlī

    4. J.W. Redhouse – Translation from the Original Arabic of a History or Journal of the Events Which Occurred during Seven Expeditions in the Land of Kānim

    5. Herbert Richmond Palmer – The Bornu Girgam

    6. Dierk Lange – Ethnogenesis from Within the Chadic State

    7. Dierk Lange – The Mune-Symbol as the Ark of the Covenant

    8. Hamidu Bobboyi – The ʿUlama of Borno: A Study of the Relations Between Scholars and State Under the Sayfawa, 1470—1808

    9. Hamidu Bobboyi – Relations of the Borno ʿUlamāʾ With The Sayfawa Rulers: The Role of the Maḥram

    10. Class Session 2 (04-13-2024)

    1. Anonymous – A Native of Bornoo

    2. Obaro Ikime – The Fall of Nigeria, Chapter 4 (The Fall of Borno)

    3. Class Session 3 (04-20-2024)

    1. Class Session (04-27-2024)

About this course

  • Free
  • 20 lessons
  • 5.5 hours of video content

We have a beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1889 - 1940)