Ashimi of Bornu

Hashim bin Umar al-Kanemi, called Ashimi or Hashimi, was the shehu (ruler) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1885/1886–1893. Ashimi is remembered as a pious and honest but also weak and indecisive ruler. Ashimi presided over a time of both economic and political crisis and faced the colonial interests of Britain and France, as well as an invasion of the empire by the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr, challenges he proved unprepared for. In the aftermath of disastrous losses to Rabih in 1893, Ashimi was replaced as shehu with his nephew Kyari and then assassinated.