Dikwa used to be part of the kingdom of
Borno before being captured by
Rabih in 1893. The latter had the place fortified and Dikwa became the capital of his kingdom from 1893 to 1900.[1]
In 1900, the French defeated
Rabih and captured Dikwa. The town was handed over to the Germans in 1902 because of a treaty signed in 1893 between the Germans and the British which stipulated that the town of Dikwa should become German. This treaty is at the origin of the
Dikwa Emirate.[2]
With an annual rainfall range of 15 to 32 inches, the Bornu and Dikwa Emirates have a semiarid climate with a long dry season and a brief wet season.[6][7][8][9]
Landscape
It has an area of 1,774 km2 and had a population of 25,300 inhabitants in 2010 according to Africapolis.[10] The 2006 census gave an estimated number of 105,909 inhabitants but, as in the rest of Nigeria, these figures should be taken with caution.[11]
^W. K. R. Hallam, The life and times of Rabih Fadl Allah (Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1977).
^Obaro Ikime, ‘The fall of Borno’, in The fall of Nigeria: the British conquest (London: Heinemann Educational, 1977), pp.178-184.
^Michael Callahan, Mandates and Empire: The League of Nations and Africa 1914-1931 (Sussex Academic Press, 2008) and Michael Callahan, A Sacred Trust: The League of Nations and Africa, 1929-1946 (Sussex Academic Press, 2004).
^S. J. Hogben and Anthony Kirk-Greene, The Emirates of Northern Nigeria: a Preliminary Survey of Their Historical Traditions (Oxford University Press: London, 1966), p. 352.
^Report of the United Nations Commissioner for the Supervision of the Plebiscites in the Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration, (T/1491) (New York: Trusteeship Council, United Nations, 1959).
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