Garandoili

Garandoili lies in the western Bornu country, south of the Komadugu Yobe and east of Nguru. The river flows toward Lake Chad, while Nguru stood on the routes between Bornu and the Hausa lands. From the seventeenth century the Galadima, or warden of the west, held his seat at Nguru and governed Bornu's western marches. His authority connected the surrounding settlements with the court farther east.