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		Society-KANURI The Kanuri are the dominant ethnic group of Bornu Province in northeastern Nigeria.
		The climate of the Kanuri region is typical sub-Saharan savannah.
		Social relations in Kanuri society are generally patterned upon those of the idealized family, the most common being the father-son/ superior-subordinate relation.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7850 (1434 words)

	Kanuri language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kanuri is a Nilo-Saharan language which is spoken by about 4 million people in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
		Kanuri belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan.
		Kanuri is spoken mainly in the region of Bornu, with speakers in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanuri_language (117 words)

	Kanuri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kanuri are an African ethnic group living in northeastern Nigeria in the state of Bornu and in Niger.
		They speak the Kanuri language, a member of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
		Other countries where Kanuri language is spoken include parts of Niger, Cameroon, and Sudan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanuri (92 words)

	Imperial Africa
		With the introduction of horses and camels, the Kanuri created a strong military presence that was renowned from the Nile to the Niger and was used to great effect to unify the area.
		Bornu was largely agricultural, and their people were little affected by the presence of the Kanuri, given the Kanuri system of government that seldom interfered with local affairs.
		Kanuri leadership gradually declined in its effectiveness over succeeding generations until the end of the eighteenth century.
	empathosnationenterprises.com /Consulate/EN-Library/Black-Studies/afempire.html (4574 words)

	Kanuri -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Kanuri language is classified as belonging to the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan family.
		Kanuri consists of two main dialects, Manga Kanuri and Yerwa Kanuri (also called Beriberi, which they consider pejorative), spoken in central Africa by more than 5,700,000 individuals at the turn of the 21st century.
		It is closely related to the Kanuri, Zaghawa, and Berti languages and belongs to the Saharan group of the Nilo-Saharan family of languages.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044622?tocId=9044622 (446 words)

	PEOPLE OF AFRICA - The Diversity of Ethnic groups in Africa
		The Kanuri were Initially Pastoral Berber, the Kanuri were driven from North Africa by Arabs, moving to the area around Lake Chad in the late seventh century, and absorbed migrants from the Upper Nile.
		According to Kanuri tradition, Sef, son of Dhu Ifazan of Yemen, arrived in Kanem in the ninth century and united the population into the Sayfawa dynasty.
		The Kanuri who have occupations that are related to politics or religion have a very high social status; whereas, those who work as flsmiths, well-diggers, or butchers have a low social status.
	www.africanholocaust.net /peopleofafrica.htm (12731 words)

	Nigeria - The Northern Area
		There was, however, a distinctive Kanuri tradition of a U-shaped town plan open to the west, housing the political leader or founder at the head of the plaza formed by the arms of the U. The people remained intensely proud of their ancient traditions of Islamic statehood.
		Among many ancient traits were included their long chronicles of kings, wars, and hegemony in the region, and their specific Kanuri cultural identity seen in the hairstyles of the women, the complex cuisine, and the identification with ruling dynasties whose names and exploits were still fresh.
		Maiduguri, the central city of Kanuri influence in the twentieth century, was chosen as the capital of an enlarged Northeast State during the civil war.
	countrystudies.us /nigeria/38.htm (1711 words)

	YWAM Sahara - Kanuri Manga
		Crisis/Conflicts - History/Status: The Kanuri live in Niger, Chad, Nigeria and Cameroon and are these days divided by national borders, which is unnatural compared with life as it used to be.
		The Kanuri have Quranic schools and are quite advanced in terms of formal education, compared to some of the neighbouring peoples.
		Other: The Kanuri have a much reduced rate of increase according to some sources due to the lower fecundity of the women but another reason could be the high incidence of infant mortality.
	www.gosahara.org /km.html (1314 words)

	SIM People Group Profile: Manga
		The Manga are a subgroup of the Kanuri.
		The Kanuris trace their ancestry back to the Bornu Empire established by the Saifawa family, the deposed ruling family of the Kanem Empire who fled to the area southwest of Lake Chad during the fourteenth century because of civil war.
		The Kanuris trace their ancestry back to the Bornu Empire established by the Saifawa family, the deposed ruling family of the Kanem Empire who fled to the area southwest of Lake Chad during the 14th century because of civil war.
	www.sim.org /PG.asp?pgID=86&fun=1 (1518 words)

	Norbert Cyffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kanuri was not really threatened to be withdrawn from language planning activities, however, we could observe some stagnation in the production of adequate teaching materials, and sometimes in motivation of educators and politicians to actively promote the Kanuri language.
		For example, the Kanuri Language Board has become defunct, or, the Standard Kanuri Orthography is used by one television station, while it is ignored by the other station.
		lack of contact with the Kanuri language agencies in Nigeria, the chosen standard for Nigeria (Kanuri of Maiduguri) is not a central Kanuri speech form in Niger, a deliberate separation of the two countries for extra-linguistic reasons.
	www.unizh.ch /spw/afrling/afrosympo/abstracts/Cyffer.htm (445 words)

	Nigeria The Northern Area - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		There was, however, a distinctive Kanuri tradition of a U-shaped town plan open to the west, housing the political leader or founder at the head of the plaza formed by the arms of the U. The people remained intensely proud of their ancient traditions of Islamic statehood.
		Among many ancient traits were included their long chronicles of kings, wars, and hegemony in the region, and their specific Kanuri cultural identity seen in the hairstyles of the women, the complex cuisine, and the identification with ruling dynasties whose names and exploits were still fresh.
		Maiduguri, the central city of Kanuri influence in the twentieth century, was chosen as the capital of an enlarged Northeast State during the civil war.
	www.photius.com /countries/nigeria/society/nigeria_society_the_northern_area.html (1779 words)

	KANURI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kanuri ist eine Nilo-Saharanische Sprache, die von ca.
		Kanuri zeichnet sich durch einen reichen Gebrauch von Suffixen und Präfixen aus.
		Die wenigen Fremdworte im Kanuri sind größteils arabischen Ursprungs.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/K/Kanuri (123 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kanuri language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kanuri is one of the Nilo-Saharan languages, of the Western Sahara subphylum.
		Kanuri is spoken in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan.
		Kanuri is of the subject-object-verb word order type.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kanuri-language (138 words)

	Public Anthropology
		Further, he claims that the human side of innovation is of equal importance to the technical side, and is necessary to the successful operation of an experimental innovation.
		Of the Kanuri who properly used the super-phosphate fertilizer, the mean increase totaled 30.3% for the millet crops and 35.1% for the groundnut crops.
		First, the peasant Kanuri had had bad experiences with the same super-phosphate fertilizer in the past, and this permeated into the second trial.
	www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/AnthCAOldS1961.htm (2799 words)

	Isokan Yoruba Magazine: Abacha Metamorphosis By Kehinde Dawodu
		The Kanuri boy was apparently doomed but for the timely arrival of the then Sardauna of Sokoto and his "Northernization of the Nigeria Army" crusade.
		Below are the enviable achievements of the Kanuri boy and his sycophants since he usurped power in 1994.
		The Kanuri boy loves power, he waited anxiously to wrestle the power, and now the boy is tenaciously holding on to power and will do anything necessary to maintain the status quo.
	www.yoruba.org /Magazine/Spring97/File10.htm (1939 words)

	IMPERO DI KANEM-BORNU
		Fù il primo Kanuri a convertirsi all'Islam e dichiarò la jihad nei confronti delle tribù confinanti iniziando così un lungo periodo di conquiste.
		I Kanuri aumentarono il proprio potere sotto il regno del Mai Idris Alooma (1575-1610) ristabilendo la propria autorità nell'area Fezzan e nelle terre Hausa grazie ad un esercito armato di moschetti acquistati dagli Ottomani.
		La storia dei Kanuri a partire dal Mai Dunama Dibbalemi in poi ci è nota grazie al Diwan (Cronache Reali) scoperte nel 1850 da H Barth, archeologo tedesco.
	www.24pm-affiliation.com /encyclopedia/I/Impero_di_Kanem-Bornu (504 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is held that this conflict is due to the woman's ability to subvert the cultural ideal of male dominance through his dependence upon her for much of his own status in the community.
		The discussion of the Kanuri life cycle along with the material on kinship and marriage has been designed to give a description on interpersonal relations.
		Although the whole fabric of Kanuri society operates at once, the large scaled structural features of the society are linked behaviourally by these patterns of interpersonal relations.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Mar_dir/XMarriage.4401 (316 words)

	Amana Online
		The accounts of the origins of the Kanuri (as the people of Bornu are called) and the Kanembu go back to the shadowy period of the first millennium and are more than ordinarily contradictory and confusing.
		In the century that followed his death the Kanuri, no less than the Hausas, were on the defensive against the Jukuns, and so it was not until 1734 that they re-established their sway over Hausaland.
		Apart from being exhausted by the war, the Kanuri had reason to be apprehensive of the latent enmity of Baghirmi and Wadai in their rear.
	www.amanaonline.com /Sokoto/sokoto_7.htm (2941 words)

	Imperio Kanem-Bornu - Wikipedia
		Un grupo llamado los kanuri migró hacia el área de Kanem durante el siglo XII y hacia el siglo XIII comenzaron a conquistar tierras vecinas.
		Él fue el primero de los kanuri en convertirse al islam y declaró jihad contra las tribus vecinas e inició un extenso período de conquista.
		Durante el reinado del Mai Idris Alooma (1580-1617) los kanuri crecieron en poder lo suficiente como para reestablecer su autoridad en las tierras de Fezzan y Haussa con un ejército equipado con mosquetes provistos por los otomanos.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperio_Kanem-Bornu (535 words)

	Hernando: Doctor, kids return from mission of mercy
		Kanuri, whose specialty is endoscopy, conducted 10 to 12 scopes a day.
		Although the hospital is close enough that Jucuapa residents could travel there, Kanuri said they can't afford hospital care, even though it amounts to the cost of a modest meal by American standards.
		Kanuri said all of the patients he encountered were "very respectful, smiling, beaming, shirts tucked in."
	www.sptimes.com /2005/07/24/Hernando/Doctor__kids_return_f.shtml (1226 words)

	Kanuri - LoveToKnow 1911
		KANURI, or Beriberi, an African tribe of mixed origin, the dominant race of Bornu.
		They are large-boned and coarsefeatured, but contain nevertheless a distinct strain of Fula blood.
		This page was last modified 10:26, 18 May 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kanuri (50 words)

	Nigeria - SendMail
		The Kanuri is the dominant ethnic group aand accounts for about threequarters of the popust lation of the state.
		A dialect of Arabic is spoken by the Shuwa Arabs.
		A typical Kanuri settlement is fully enclosed by individual compound fences, with the main wide entrance to the village which is called "danda", terminating at the village head's house which faces west.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/send.asp?blurb=220 (1062 words)

	Fur People Profile
		The Fur were renowned as cavalrymen in the Kanuri state of Borno in what is now Nigeria.
		They are kin to the Kanuri people of Nigeria, with whom they maintained contacts over the centuries.
		The Fur area, called Darfur, was ruled by the Borno kingdom of the Kanuri in Nigeria as late as the 17th century.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/fur.html (1606 words)

	Kanem-Bornu Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But group called the Kanuri migrated into the area in the 1100s and in the century the Kanuri began to conquer the areas.
		The Kanuri grew powerful enough during the of Mai Idris Alooma (1575 - 1610) to re-establish authority in the Fezzan and the Hausa lands using a army with muskets supplied by the Ottomans.
		The history of the Kanuri from Mai Dibbalemi onwards is known from the Diwan (Royal Chronicles) discovered in 1850 by H Barth a German archeologist.
	www.freeglossary.com /Kanem-Bornu_Empire (705 words)

	KAM Kanem Bornu and the Hausa Kingdoms
		Kanem was originally a confederation of various ethnic groups, but by 1100AD, a peoples called the Kanuri settle in Kanem and in the thirteenth century the Kanuri began upon a conquest of their neighbors.
		By the early 1400's, Kanuri power shifted from Kanem to Bornu, a Kanuri kingdom south and west of Lake Chad.
		The Kanuri grew powerful enough to unite the kingdom of Bornu with Kanem during the reign of Idris Alawma (1575-1610).
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Classroom/9912/kanemhausa.html (756 words)

	Kanuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They the Kanuri language a member of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
		A study of the Kanuri language: grammar and vocabulary
		A Sketch of Kanuri (Grammatische Analysen Afrikanischer Sprachen)
	www.freeglossary.com /Kanuri (91 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The majority of the Kanuri live in the Borno province of northeastern Nigeria, where they are the dominant people group.
		Among the Kanuri, horses are a symbol of prestige.
		Some of the Kanuri tribes do not yet have a translation of the Bible in their native language; others have only portions.
	www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/clusters/8023.html (955 words)

	Méga-Tchad
		Since 1981 Kanuri students collect narrative texts and write them down as parts of their academic essays and theses, which so far remain unpublished.
		All the known Kanuri oral narratives, which number some 800 distinct text units, will be administered in some kind of virtual archive (as no material archive so far exists), which I call A Reference Book of Kanuri Oral Narratives.
		This is thought to help the Kanuri literary scholar in recognizing interrelationships between texts and genres, especially when further texts are added to the corpus.
	www.uni-bayreuth.de /afrikanistik/mega-tchad-de/bulletin97/artic.html (941 words)

	Kanuri -- Compton's Desk Reference - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Their language, Kanuri, is one of the Nilo-Saharan languages.
		The Kanuri developed the powerful empire of Kanem-Bornu, which reached its peak in the 16th century.
		The Kanuri economy is based on millet agriculture and trade with the Fulani and Arab herders.
	deskreference.britannica.com /ebc/article-9368910 (120 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kanem-Bornu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The original empire was called Kanem and grew out of a coalition of chiefdoms near Lake Chad, located on the trans-Saharan trade routes that linked sub-Saharan Africa with the Middle East.
		But a group called the Kanuri migrated into the Kanem area in the 1100s and in the 13th century the Kanuri began to conquer the surrounding areas.
		The Kanuri grew powerful enough during the reign of Mai Idris Alooma (1580-1617) to re-establish authority in the Fezzan area and the Hausa lands using an army equipped with muskets supplied by the Ottomans.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kanem_Bornu (569 words)

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