Abdullahi dan Fodio
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Abdullahi dan Fodio (c. 1766-1828), Sultan of Gwandu, (1819-1828) was a scholar and brother of Usman dan Fodio (1754–1817). Usman being more of a scholar than politician, delegated the practical regency of the western part of his empire to Abdullahi, who later became the Emir of Gwandu, and the eastern part to his son Muhammad Bello. The title of Sultan was passed on to Bello. 1815.[1]
Abdullahi was also a writer like his brother, he wrote a voluminous book on the Fulani Jihad, supplementing his brother's works on the same subject. After, the ascension of his nephew as Sultan, Abdullahi became partly detached from secular leadership, foregoing the post of Vizier or Waziri but he still maintained his position as emir.
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- John D. Hargreaves, Prelude to the Partition of West Africa; Macmillan, 1963
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