Sanda Kura
| Sanda Kura | |
|---|---|
Sanda Kura, wearing the ring collar of a European uniform. Photograph likely taken in 1900 after the defeat of Rabih az-Zubayr. | |
| Shehu of the Kanem–Bornu Empire | |
| Reign | 14 January – July/August 1900 |
| Predecessor | Sanda Wuduroma (1894) |
| Successor | Abubakar Garbai |
| Shehu of Borno | |
| Reign | 1922–1937 |
| Predecessor | Abubakar Garbai |
| Successor | Sanda Kyarimi |
| Born | 1842 |
| Died | 1937 (aged 94–95) |
| Dynasty | al-Kanemi dynasty |
| Father | Ibrahim Kura |
Umar Sanda ibn Ibrahim Kura al-Kanemi (1842–1937), known as Sanda Kura or Sanda Kori, was shehu (ruler) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire for a few months in 1900, taking power with French support after the defeat of the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr (who had ruled the empire as emir in 1893–1900). Sanda Kura was deposed by the French after a brief reign and replaced with his brother Abubakar Garbai, under whom what remained of Kanem–Bornu was incorporated into the French and British colonial empires.
Sanda Kura later served as the shehu of the Borno Emirate, a traditional state under the British Nigeria Protectorate, from 1922 to 1937.