Kanem-Bornu Expansion (1176)

Name: Kanem-Bornu Expansion (1176)
Start: 1175
End: 1177

Type Event Region Africa Time 1175–1177

In the 1170s, the Kanem-Bornu Empire in the Lake Chad Basin under the Sayfawa dynasty kept expanding east and west, integrating Sahel nomadic tribes …

Timeline

1176Lake Chad Basin · Lake Chad BasinSayfawa dynasty forces campaigned against recalcitrant tribes around Lake Chad, bringing nomadic groups into the tribute and military service system and strengthening central control over the basin's resources.
1176–1177Bornu lowlands · West AfricaImperial power penetrated westward into the Bornu lowlands, establishing suzerain relations and controlling trade route nodes leading to Fezzan and North Africa, where salt, slave, and ivory trade converged.

Sources

A History of the African People — Robert W. July (1998)
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3 — J. D. Fage (1977)