Dikwa
Dikwa is a city in the Nigerian state of Borno and the capital of the Local Government Area Dikwa and the seat of the Sultanate of Dikwa. It has tens of thousands of inhabitants, who live mainly from agriculture and trade, and is influenced by Muslims.
geography
The city is located near the state border with Cameroon in the extreme northeastern tip of Nigeria, in the fertile plain of the southern Chad basin between Lake Chad and the Mandara Mountains . To the east of Dikwa, the Yedseram River, which once flowed into Lake Chad, seeps away .
The A3 national road between Maiduguri and the state border runs through Dikwa in a west-east direction. In future it will be part of the Dakar-N'Djamena-Highway . Roads also lead to the north and south.
history
The settlement of Dikwa was part of the Bornu Kingdom until 1893, when Rabih az-Zubayr conquered it, fortified it and made it the capital of his kingdom. Parts of the fortifications have been preserved to this day.
In 1900, French colonial troops defeated Rabih az-Zubayr at the Battle of Kousséri under the command of Amédée-François Lamy and occupied the city under the colonial administrator Émile Gentil . During this time, in 1901, a Sultanate of Dikwa was established, which acts parallel to the colonial government and sees itself as a successor to the old Bornure Empire.
Due to a treaty concluded in 1893 between the colonial powers of the German Empire and Great Britain after territorial disputes (the race for Africa ), which the city of German Cameroon awarded , France handed Dikwa over to the German protection force under Curt von Pavel in 1902 . In May 1902, the town's slave market was closed on German orders. Under the name Dikoa, the city was the capital of German Bornu until 1916 , which was affiliated to the Residentur Deutsche Tschadseeländer . Between 1909 and 1911 Adolf von Duisburg was the post leader in Dikoa.
British troops occupied the city during the First World War. From 1922 it was part of the Cameroons under British administration due to a League of Nations mandate and from 1946 a trust agreement under Chapter XII of the Charter of the United Nations . In 1942 the seat of the Sultanate was moved from Dikwa to Bama.
As a result of a referendum initiated by the United Nations in February 1961, Cameroons were split up. Like the entire Muslim northern part of Cameroons, the city came to Nigeria on May 31, 1961, and Dikwa became the seat of a sultanate again.
Due to armed conflicts over the Islamization of Nigeria (the neighboring city of Maiduguri is the headquarters of the Islamist organization Boko Haram , which also carried out bloody attacks in Dikwa), there is now a large refugee camp near Dikwa with several thousand residents.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Maywald: Die Eroberer von Kamerun , Verlaganstalt Otto Stollberg, Berlin 1938, p. 227
- ↑ http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/Bildprojekt/Lexikon/php/suche_db.php?suchname=Dikoa
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Dikoa
- ↑ http://www.bridica.com/place/Dikwa
- ↑ Nigeria: Double attack on refugee camp. In: Spiegel Online . February 11, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
Coordinates: 12 ° 2 ' N , 13 ° 55' E