Kazaure

Kazaure lies north of Kano among hills and cultivated plains in the Hausa country. In the early nineteenth century Ibrahim Dan Tunku, a Fulbe warrior and scholar, established an emirate here during the upheavals associated with the Sokoto jihad. He made a fortified settlement his headquarters, and the new territory was formed from lands adjoining Kano, Katsina and Daura. Kazaure’s ruling house thus emerged from the political changes that reshaped Hausaland after 1804.