Ahmad ibn Furtu

Ahmad ibn Furtu was the chief imam and chronicler of Mai Idris Alooma of the Bornu Empire in the late sixteenth century. He wrote two Arabic accounts of the ruler's campaigns, the Book of the Bornu Wars and the Book of the Kanem Wars. Describing the army, its firearms and the conduct of war, they are among the earliest surviving histories written within West or Central Africa and a key source for the history of Bornu.