![]() ![]() The Dagbamba chiefs took their time paying for their horses, which led the Zarma to settle in Dagbon until they were paid for. ![]() Kingdom of Dagbon ĭuring this time, groups of Zarma warriors, among others, also made their way into the Kingdom of Dagbon, initially appearing as horse traders. Large parts of the population of Zarma Land turned to Islam during these years, which increasingly established itself as the main religion in these areas.ĭue to the general devastation as a result of the "warlike" events and the resulting failures in vital areas of economic production, numerous Zarma increasingly concentrated on trade outside their national borders. The genesis of their conversion to Islam was triggered by this uprising and the already existing general longing for a more just social order. The Zarma rebelled and succeeded in regaining political power and largely driving the Fulanis out of the country. In 1860, there was an uprising against the occupying power in and around Kebbi with the help of other ethnic groups. With the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, parts of the Zarma Land became known as the Emirate of Kebbi Western Province of the New Sokoto Empire. So it is not surprising that the Zarma Land was one of the primary goals in the great jihad of Usman dan Fodio (1790–1809) and was partially conquered by the Fulani jihadists. After the defeat of the Songhai Empire in 1591, there was again a major wave of migration by the Zarma to these regions.Īlthough the Zarma have been consistently subject to Islamic influences since then, they have been able to withstand extensive Islamization for centuries. ![]() The founders of the Zabarma Emirate were Muslim Zarma, a subgroup of the Songhai who speak the Zarma dialect.Īfter the Songhai campaign of 1516, some of them had settled in the newly conquered kingdom of Kebbi. The key moving force behind the state was Babatu who hailed from N'Dounga in Niger, a place that had been Muslim far longer than most of the other areas the Zabarma leadership came from, most of which became Muslim only in the 1850s or so. The leaders of the Zabarma Emirate, who belonged to the Zarma ethnicity from which the Emirate is named, originated in an area now in the nation of Niger, in an area south-east of Niamey on the east side of the Niger River. The Zabarma Emirate was an Islamic state that existed from the 1860s to 1897 in what is today parts of Ghana and Burkina Faso. ![]()
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