Bura

Bura belongs to the wider Liptako region of the central Sahel, a country of grasslands and seasonal watercourses extending towards the Niger. Pastoralists, farmers and traders moved through a region inhabited by Fula, Gourmantche, Mossi and Songhai communities.

In the early nineteenth century, Braahima Seydu established the Fulani emirate of Liptako around Dori after a struggle with the Gourmantche. The emirate was part of a wider network of Islamic states in the western Sahel.