Kabura

Kabura was a sultanate in the Inner Niger Delta, upstream of Zagha. Its sultan held the land as a vassal of Mali.

Around 1400, in neighbouring Macina, a clan led by Maghani settled between Mema and the Niger, founding the line that ruled the region. The region later paid tribute to Songhai, the Moroccan pashas of Timbuktu and the Bambara empire of Ségou. In 1818 a Fulani jihad overthrew the old Macina sultanate and established the caliphate of Hamdullahi.