People of the veil - Baron Francis James Rennell Rodd Rennell of Rodd

THE KINGS OF THE TUAREG OF AIR

The following list of the kings of Agades was collected by Mr. H. R. Palmer, now Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Nigeria, in a record which has been referred to in the body of this work as the Agades Chronicle. The information was supplied by a learned Hausa scribe and is derived from Tuareg sources, probably in part MSS. The record ranks as “good oral testimony.” It was published in an English translation prepared by Mr. Palmer and printed in the Journal of the African Society, Vol. IX. No. XXXVI., July 1910. I am indebted to Mr. H. R. Palmer and to Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., the publishers of the Journal, for permission to reproduce the information in extenso.

In the following pages little more is given than the bare list of kings with the dates, but much of the other information contained in the Chronicle has been incorporated in the text of the third, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth chapters of this book. The spelling of some of the proper names in the list and in the text has been slightly modified to accord with the system of transliteration adopted.

The genealogical table following the list of kings has been compiled from the information contained in the Chronicle.

	Date.		Name.	Period of reign.	Remarks.
	A.D.	A.H.	Name.	Period of reign.	Remarks.
I	1406	809	Yunis, son of Tahanazeta	20 yrs.
II	1425	829	Akasani	6 „	Son of the sister of Yunis.
III	1429	833	El Haj Aliso	20 „	He was killed by his people.
IV	1449	853	Amati	?4 „	Brother of the above: he also was killedand the dynasty ended.
V	?	?	Ibn Takoha	4 yrs. 2 mths.	A new dynasty.
VI	1453	857	Ibrahim ben Hailas	9 yrs.
VII			Yusif ben Gashta	16 „	Brother of the above.
VIII	1477	882	Muhammad the Great	10 „
IX	1486	892	Muhammad Sottofe		Date confirmed approximately fromNigerian records. He was a contemporary of M. Rimfa of Kano,1463-99, and Ibrahim of Katsina, 1493-6.
X	1493	899	Muhammad ben Abdurahman el Mekkaniyi	9 „	Son of sister of above: he waskilled.
XI	1502	908	The twins Adil and Muhammad Hammat		Known as the children of Fatimallat. Theyreigned together. Their date is confirmed by the advent of Askia toAir in their reign in 1515.
XII	1516	922	Muhammad bin Talazar	2 yrs.
XIII	1518	924	Ibrahim	24-5 yrs.	Son of M. Sottofe.
XIV	1553	961	Muhammad el Guddala	39-40 „	Brother of above (name also given asGhodala and Alghoddala).
XV	1591	1000	Akampaiya	2½ „
XVI	1594?	—	Yusif	8 & 28 yrs.	Son of sister of above.
XVII	1601?	—	Muhammad bin Mubaraki ibn el Guddala		Son of younger brother of Yusif’s father,and presumably grandson of No. XIV; deposed Yusif and was shortlyafter himself deposed.
XVIII	1629?	—	Muhammad Attafrija	2 yrs.	Son of Yusif: his mother was daughter ofNo. XIV. Deposed.
XIX	1631?	—	Aukar ibn Talyat	1 mth.	Deposed.
XX	1631	—	Muhammad Attafriya	? 31 yrs.	For the second time.
XXI	1653	1064	Muhammad Mubaraki	34 „	? Son of father of above.
XXII	1687	1098	Muhammad Agabba	33-4 yrs.
XXIII	1720	1132	Muhammad el Amin	9 mths.
XXIV	1720	1133	El Wali	1 yr. 2 mths.	Brother of above.
XXV	1721	1134	El Mumuni Muhammad	9 mths.
XXVI	1722?	—	Muhammad Agagesha		Son of No. XXII.
XXVII	1735	1147	Muhammad Hammad	5 yrs.	Son of No. XXI. Deposed.
XXVIII	1739	1152	Muhammad Guwa	4 yrs. 7 mths.	? Son or grandson of No. XVII.
XXIX	1744	1742	Muhammad Hammad		For the second time.
XXX	1759	—	Muhammad Guwa	4 yrs. 6 mths.	Do.
XXXI	1763	1176	Muhammad Hammad	5 yrs. 6 mths.	For the third time.
XXXII	1768	1181	Muhammad Guddala	25 yrs.	Son of above.
XXXIII	1797	—	Muhammad Dani	5 yrs. 7 mths.	Deposed in A.H.1212.
Interregnum				7 yrs.	Government of chief learned men.
XXXIV	1797	1212	El Bekri [El Bakeri]	19-20 yrs.	Succeeded in 1797, but was not installedtill later.
XXXV	1815	1231	Muhammad Gumma	5 yrs. 1 mth.
XXXVI	1826	—	Ibrahim Waffa	7 yrs.	Deposed.
XXXVII	1835	—	Guma	7 „	Killed.
XXXVIII	18--	—	Abdul Qader	22-3 yrs.	Deposed in 1857.
XXXIX	1857	1274	Ahmed Rufaiyi	12 „	Twice deposed, finally in 1869.
XL	about 1869	1286	Sofo el Bekri	? 32 „	Four times deposed.
XLI	about 1900	1318	Osman Mikitan	4 yrs. 5 mths.
XLII	1904	1322	Ibrahim Da Sugi	4 yrs.	Three times deposed.
XLIII	1908	1336	Tegama	11 „	Died in prison.
XLIV	1919		Omar	Reigning

APPENDIX VII

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL USED IN THIS BOOK

A great student was showing a friend over his library, and it happened to the friend to ask the obvious question that has occurred to nearly everyone in the same circumstances. The learned man in reply remarked wearily, that neither had he read all the books which adorned his shelves, nor yet were those all the books which he had read. I would say much the same of the lists which are given below. Many as are the works mentioned, those dealing with Air in any detail are very few.