Gobir

Gobir was a Hausa kingdom that first grew in the Aïr mountains, north of Hausaland.

Under pressure from the Tuareg and rising Agadez, the Gobirawa moved south and settled on Zamfara land in the early 18th century. Around 1756 Babari destroyed Birnin Zamfara and built a walled capital at Alkalawa. King Yunfa expelled the reformer Usman dan Fodio in 1803; his jihad captured Alkalawa and killed Yunfa in 1808. Gobirawa founded Tibiri in 1836, but Sokoto defeated them at Gawakuke that year.