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Kano Chronicle
The Kano Chronicle is a written account of the history ten in the 1890s but represents the amalgamation of ear-
of the Hausa people who inhabit northern Nigeria. lier works. The original copy is still with the descendants
Although it relates only to Kano, it is typically drawn up- of Malam Idris al-Khilawiy in Kano.
on to explain the early history of the Hausa as a whole.
This chronicle, a list of rulers of Kano stretching back
to the tenth century AD, tells of eleven clans of animists
References
(such as salt-extractors, brewers, or smiths) who were • Hunwick, J.O. (1993), "Not yet the Kano chronicle:
warned by their spiritual leader that a stranger would king-lists with and without narrative elaboration
come and cut down their sacred tree and wrest their do- from nineteeth-century Kano", Sudanic Africa 4:
minion from them: “If he comes not in your time, as- 95–130, http://hf.uib.no/smi/sa/04/4Kano.pdf .
suredly he will come in the time of your children, and • Palmer, H.R. (ed. and tr.) (1928), Sudanese Memoirs:
will conquer all in this country” (Palmer 1928: III: 98). In- being mainly translations of a number of Arabic
deed, a man named Bagauda allegedly arrived soon after, manuscripts relating to the western and central Sudan (3
conquered, and became the first king of Kano (Palmer Volumes), Lagos: Government Printer . Reprinted
1928: III: 97-100). The existing version was probably writ- 1967 by London: Frank Cass.
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