title: Ibrahim Kura of Borno
text: # Ibrahim Kura of Borno
  
  Ibrahim or Ibrahim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-c. 1885) was Shehu of Borno from c. 1884 to c. 1885.
  
  ## Reign of Ibrahim
  
  Ibrahim became Shehu of Borno in 1884 at the death of his brother Bukar Kura. His uncle, Abba Masta Kura had been recognised Shehu before him but Ibrahim succeeded to bribe his way to the throne. His one-year reign was marked by an intense political crisis in Kukawa.
  
  ## Dynasty
  
  Ibrahim Kura of Borno House of Kanemi :
  
  | Regnal titles |||
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  | Preceded byBukar Kura | 5th Shehu of Borno c. 1884-c. 1885 | Succeeded byAshimi of Borno |
  
  ## 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.
  