title: Bukar Kura of Borno
text: # Bukar Kura of Borno
  
  Bukar or Bukar Kura bin Umar al-Kanemi (c. 1830-c. 1884 or 1885) was Shehu of Borno from 1881 to c. 1884.
  
  ## Reign of Bukar
  
  Bukar became Shehu of Borno in 1881 at the death of his father Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin. His three-year reign was marked by a deep economic crisis which forced him to impose a tax on his subjects. In Kanuri language, this tax was called kumoreji (splitting a calabash in half) which meant that Bukar appropriated half the wealth of his subjects.
  
  ## Bukar as seen by Heinrich Barth
  
  In 1851, a British expedition led by Heinrich Barth arrived in Borno. Barth met Bukar when he was around twelve and according to him he was:
  
     the eldest son of Omar who now unfortunately seems to have the best claim to the succession, he was a child devoid of intelligence, or noble feelings
  
  ## Dynasty
  
  Bukar Kura of Borno House of Kanemi :
  
  | Regnal titles |||
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  | Preceded byUmar of Borno | 4th Shehu of Borno 1881-1884 | Succeeded byIbrahim Kura |
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ Lavers, John, "The Al- Kanimiyyin Shehus: a Working Chronology" in Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs, 268, Bd. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1993: 179-186.
  * ↑ Louis Brenner, The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973), pp.86-88.
  * ↑ Herbert Richmond Palmer, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269.
  * ↑ Heinrich Barth,Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (London: Longman, 1857), p.83.
  