Afade

Afade was one of the Kotoko towns of the southern Lake Chad basin, a region of walled settlements and small kingdoms around the lower Chari and Logone. Its name appears alongside those of Makari and Goulfey in accounts of the region's cities. In the sixteenth century, Bornu's expansion and the arrival of Shuwa Arab pastoralists altered the balance of power among these riverine communities, drawing them into a wider political world centred on the lake.