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Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · NGA LEFT · TCD RIGHT

1. c. 9th century

   Rise of the Kanem empire

   Around Lake Chad the empire of Kanem emerged under the Sayfawa dynasty, growing wealthy as the southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and gradually adopting Islam.

   Formation · from the Nigeria chronicle · The great precolonial kingdoms: Kanem-Bornu, Hausa, Oyo and Benin · REFS 2 — The Bornu Empire, Nigeria (country overview and history)

2. c. 1400

   Shift from Kanem to Bornu

   After conflict with the Bulala forced the dynasty to abandon its eastern heartland, the state re-centred west of Lake Chad at Bornu, beginning the era of the Bornu Empire.

   Politics & Power · from the Nigeria chronicle · The great precolonial kingdoms: Kanem-Bornu, Hausa, Oyo and Benin · REFS 2 — The Bornu Empire, Nigeria (country overview and history)