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Abubakar Garbai
Abubakar Garbai was Shehu of Borno from 1902 to 1922. After the fall of Rabih az-Zubayr he was installed by the British as ruler of the British part of Borno, and in 1907 he founded a new capital at Yerwa, which grew into the city of Maiduguri.
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