Kanembu (people)
Kanembu (also French Kanembou or Kanem ) is the name of a people living east of Lake Chad in what is now the Republic of Chad .
The Kanembu people emerged from the Kanem kingdom and also bears his name: Kanem-bu - "People of Kanem". Just as the Kanembu language is only a dialect of the Kanuri spoken west of Lake Chad in Bornu , Kanem and Bornu were united until the beginning of the 19th century as part of the Kanem-Bornu empire under the rule of the Sefuwa . The Bulala ruled over Kanem only from the end of the 14th to the second half of the 16th century . Today the Kanembu live mainly in the administrative region Kanem east of Lake Chad in the Republic of Chad with the seat of the prefect in Mao . The Kanembu are members of the Bornu subgroup who immigrated from Nigeria (Nigerian name: Kanuri ).
literature
- Edouard Conte: Marriage Patterns, Political Change and the Perpetuation of Social Inequality in South Kanem (Chad). Paris 1983.
- Albert Le Rouvreur: Saheliens et Saharians du Chad. Paris 1962 (pp. 75-163).