Djubayru b. Aadama

Djubayru b. Aadama († February 1903 ) ( called Zuberu in German texts ) was the last sovereign Amir of the Amirate Fombina ( Adamaua ) in what is now Nigeria and Cameroon .

He was a son of the state's founder Moodibbo Aadama (1809-1847) and succeeded his brother Amir Umaru Sanda in 1890 to the throne. The center of his rule was in Yola . The first lasting relationships with the European colonial powers were established under his government. He temporarily approved the establishment of a trading post in Garua am Benue for the English Royal Niger Company (RNC) . In doing so, he tried to play off the powers that be interested in consumer trade against each other and was thus initially able to maintain his position. In 1893 the French naval officer Louis-Alexandre Mizon introduced him two guns and the necessary instructors available and thereby intervened directly in the interests of the RNC.

When Yola was captured by the British West African Frontier Force on September 2, 1901, Djubayru was ousted. He fled towards Garua, where he and his followers suffered another defeat by the German protection force under the leadership of Rudolf Cramer von Clausbruch . He was finally defeated in the battle of Miskin-Maroua in January 1902 by Hans Dominik . He withdrew to the Cameroonian-Nigerian border area and was killed there in clashes with the autochthonous population.

His brother Bobbo Ahmadu b. Was born in Yola under British rule. Aadama used.

literature

• Sa'ad Abubakar: The Lāmībe of Fombina. A Political History of Adamawa 1809-1903. Ahmadu Bello University Press, Zaria 1977, ISBN 0-19-575452-2 ( Ahmadu Bello University History Series ).
• AHM Kirk-Greene: Adamawa. Past and Present. An Historical Approach to the Development of a Northern Cameroons Province. Oxford University Press, London et al. 1958.