Chapter XXVII: Appendix: VI

THE KINGS OF THE TUAREG OF AIR

The following list of the kings of Agades was collected by Mr. H. R. Palmer, now Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Nigeria, in a record which has been referred to in the body of this work as the Agades Chronicle. The information was supplied by a learned Hausa scribe and is derived from Tuareg sources, probably in part MSS. The record ranks as “good oral testimony.” It was published in an English translation prepared by Mr. Palmer and printed in the _Journal of the African Society_, Vol. IX. No. XXXVI., July 1910. I am indebted to Mr. H. R. Palmer and to Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., the publishers of the _Journal_, for permission to reproduce the information _in extenso_.

In the following pages little more is given than the bare list of kings with the dates, but much of the other information contained in the Chronicle has been incorporated in the text of the third, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth chapters of this book. The spelling of some of the proper names in the list and in the text has been slightly modified to accord with the system of transliteration adopted.

The genealogical table following the list of kings has been compiled from the information contained in the Chronicle.

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| Date. | | Period |
+-----+----+ Name. | of | Remarks.
|A.D. |A.H.| | reign. |
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| | | | |
I|1406 |809 |Yunis, son of |20 yrs. |
| | |Tahanazeta | |
| | | | |
II|1425 |829 |Akasani |6 „ |Son of the sister of
| | | | |Yunis.
| | | | |
III|1429 |833 |El Haj Aliso |20 „ |He was killed by his
| | | | |people.
| | | | |
IV|1449 |853 |Amati |?4 „ |Brother of the above: he
| | | | |also was killed and the
| | | | |dynasty ended.
| | | | |
V| ? | ? |Ibn Takoha |4 yrs. |A new dynasty.
| | | |2 mths. |
| | | | |
VI|1453 |857 |Ibrahim ben |9 yrs. |
| | |Hailas | |
| | | | |
VII| | |Yusif ben |16 „ |Brother of the above.
| | |Gashta | |
| | | | |
VIII|1477 |882 |Muhammad the |10 „ |
| | |Great | |
| | | | |
IX|1486 |892 |Muhammad | |Date confirmed
| | |Sottofe | |approximately from
| | | | |Nigerian records. He was
| | | | |a contemporary of M.
| | | | |Rimfa of Kano, 1463-99,
| | | | |and Ibrahim of Katsina,
| | | | |1493-6.
| | | | |
X|1493 |899 |Muhammad ben |9 „ |Son of sister of above:
| | |Abdurahman el | |he was killed.
| | |Mekkaniyi | |
| | | | |
XI|1502 |908 |The twins Adil | |Known as the children of
| | |and Muhammad | |Fatimallat. They reigned
| | |Hammat | |together. Their date is
| | | | |confirmed by the advent
| | | | |of Askia to Air in their
| | | | |reign in 1515.
| | | | |
XII|1516 |922 |Muhammad bin |2 yrs. |
| | |Talazar | |
| | | | |
XIII|1518 |924 |Ibrahim |24-5 |Son of M. Sottofe.
| | | |yrs. |
| | | | |
XIV|1553 |961 |Muhammad el |39-40 „ |Brother of above (name
| | |Guddala | |also given as Ghodala
| | | | |and Alghoddala).
| | | | |
XV|1591 |1000|Akampaiya |2½ „ |
| | | | |
XVI|1594?| — |Yusif |8 & 28 |Son of sister of above.
| | | |yrs. |
| | | | |
XVII|1601?| — |Muhammad bin | |Son of younger brother
| | |Mubaraki ibn | |of Yusif’s father, and
| | |el Guddala | |presumably grandson of
| | | | |No. XIV; deposed Yusif
| | | | |and was shortly after
| | | | |himself deposed.
| | | | |
XVIII|1629?| — |Muhammad |2 yrs. |Son of Yusif: his mother
| | |Attafrija | |was daughter of No. XIV.
| | | | |Deposed.
| | | | |
XIX|1631?| — |Aukar ibn |1 mth. |Deposed.
| | |Talyat | |
| | | | |
XX|1631 | — |Muhammad |? 31 |For the second time.
| | |Attafriya |yrs. |
| | | | |
XXI|1653 |1064|Muhammad |34 „ |? Son of father of above.
| | |Mubaraki | |
| | | | |
XXII|1687 |1098|Muhammad Agabba|33-4 |
| | | |yrs. |
| | | | |
XXIII|1720 |1132|Muhammad el |9 mths. |
| | |Amin | |
| | | | |
XXIV|1720 |1133|El Wali |1 yr. 2 |Brother of above.
| | | |mths. |
| | | | |
XXV|1721 |1134|El Mumuni |9 mths. |
| | |Muhammad | |
| | | | |
XXVI|1722?| — |Muhammad | |Son of No. XXII.
| | |Agagesha | |
| | | | |
XXVII|1735 |1147|Muhammad Hammad|5 yrs. |Son of No. XXI. Deposed.
| | | | |
XXVIII|1739 |1152|Muhammad Guwa |4 yrs. |? Son or grandson of No.
| | | |7 mths. |XVII.
| | | | |
XXIX|1744 |1742|Muhammad Hammad| |For the second time.
| | | | |
XXX|1759 | — |Muhammad Guwa |4 yrs. | Do.
| | | |6 mths. |
| | | | |
XXXI|1763 |1176|Muhammad Hammad|5 yrs. |For the third time.
| | | |6 mths. |
| | | | |
XXXII|1768 |1181|Muhammad |25 yrs. |Son of above.
| | |Guddala | |
| | | | |
XXXIII|1797 | — |Muhammad Dani |5 yrs. |Deposed in A.H. 1212.
| | | |7 mths. |
| | | | |
Interregnum |7 yrs. |Government of chief
| |learned men.
| | | | |
XXXIV|1797 |1212|El Bekri [El |19-20 |Succeeded in 1797, but
| | |Bakeri] |yrs. |was not installed till
| | | | |later.
| | | | |
XXXV|1815 |1231|Muhammad Gumma |5 yrs. |
| | | |1 mth. |
| | | | |
XXXVI|1826 | — |Ibrahim Waffa |7 yrs. |Deposed.
| | | | |
XXXVII|1835 | — |Guma |7 „ |Killed.
| | | | |
XXXVIII|18-- | — |Abdul Qader |22-3 |Deposed in 1857.
| | | |yrs. |
| | | | |
XXXIX|1857 |1274|Ahmed Rufaiyi |12 „ |Twice deposed, finally
| | | | |in 1869.
| | | | |
XL|about|1286|Sofo el Bekri |? 32 „ |Four times deposed.
|1869 | | | |
| | | | |
XLI|about|1318|Osman Mikitan |4 yrs. |
|1900 | | |5 mths. |
| | | | |
XLII|1904 |1322|Ibrahim Da Sugi|4 yrs. |Three times deposed.
| | | | |
XLIII|1908 |1336|Tegama |11 „ |Died in prison.
| | | | |
XLIV|1919 | |Omar |Reigning|
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