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Umaru Nagwamatse
Umaru Nagwamatse was the founder of the Kontagora Emirate in western Nigeria. A son of the Sokoto caliph Abubakar Atiku and a grandson of Usman dan Fodio, he left Sokoto with followers and around 1859 began conquering lands among the Kamuku, Gbagyi and other peoples between the Niger and Kaduna rivers. His emirate became notorious for large-scale slave raiding. He died in 1876.
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