The Bauchi Emirate was founded by Fula in the early 19th century in what is now Bauchi State

Bauchi State

Bauchi State is a State in northern Nigeria. Its capital is the city of Bauchi. The state was formed in 1976 when the former North-Eastern State was broken up...

, Nigeria, with its capital in Bauchi

Bauchi

Bauchi is a city in northeast Nigeria, the capital of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State, and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate. The city has a population of 316,173...

. The emirate came under British "protection" in the colonial era, and is now denoted a traditional state.

History

Before the Fulani jihad the Bauchi region was inhabited by a large number of small tribes, some of whom spoke languages related to Hausa, and some of whom were Moslems.
The province of Bauchi was conquered between 1809 and 1818 by Fula

Fula people

Fula people or Fulani or Fulbe are an ethnic group spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa...

 warriors led by one Yakoba, the son of a local Gerawa ruler who had been educated at Sokoto

Sokoto

Sokoto is a city located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near to the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River. As of 2006 it has a population of 427,760...

 and had studied under Usman dan Fodio

Usman dan Fodio

Shaihu Usman dan Fodio , born Usuman ɓii Foduye, was the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic promoter. Dan Fodio was one of a class of urbanized ethnic Fulani living in the Hausa States in what is today northern Nigeria...

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The emirate remained under Fula rule until 1902 when a British expedition occupied the capital without fighting. The British abolished the slave trade, which had flourished until then, and appointed a new emir, who died a few months later. In 1904 the emir who had succeeded took the oath of allegiance to the British crown.

Emirs

Rulers of the Bauchi state, titled Lamido

Lamido

Lamido is the Anglicisation of a term from the Fula language or Fulfulde, used to refer to a ruler. In the language it is properly laamiiɗo , derived from the verbal root "laam-" meaning "to rule or to lead", and hence may be translated more specifically as "leader"...

, were:

Start	End	Ruler
1805	1845	Yaqubu I dan Dadi (b. 1753 - d. 1845)
1845	1877	Ibrahima dan Yaqubu
1877	1883	Usman dan Ibrahima
1883	1902	Umaru dan Salamanu
1902		Muhammadu dan Ibrahima (d. 1902)
1903	1907	Hasan dan Mamudu (d. 1907)
1907	1941	Ya`qubu II dan Usman (d. 1941)
1941	28 Sep 1954	Yaqubu III dan Umaru
May 1955	1998	Adama Jumba dan Yaqubu
1998	24 July 2010	Suleiman Adamu (d. 24 July 2010 aged 77)
29 July 2010		Rilwanu Suleimanu Adamu (b. 1970)