Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman I ( '; or '; 6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Kanunî Sultan Süleyman (; "The Lawgiver Suleiman") in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566. Under his administration, the Ottoman state ruled over 15 to 25 million people.
Yaji I
Ali Yaji Dan Tsamiya was a King and later the first Sultan of Kano, a state in what is now Northern Nigeria. Yaji I ruled from 1359–1385 CE. In 1350, Yaji converted to Islam, relinquished the Hausa Animisnt Cult of Tsumbubura and proclaimed Kano a Sultanate.
He violently crushed a subsequent rebellion by the Animist cult at the Battle of Santolo waging in the processes the first Islamic Jihad in Sudanic Africa. He conquered the "Kwararafa" and the numerous Hausa Kingdoms around Kano laying the seeds for Kanoan dominance in the "Bilad as Sudan". He died in 1385 having laid the seeds for an eventual Kanoan Empire