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Umaru Nagwamatse

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Umaru Nagwamatse, an adventurer of the ruling Fulani house of Sokoto (186 miles [299 km] north), was named sarkin sudan (“king of the blacks”) in 1859 by Ahmadu Zaruku, Sokoto’s sarkin musulmi (“commander of the faithful”). Umaru then conquered a region mostly inhabited by the…
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