The Tales of The ancient Kingdom of Kanem

Kanem was situated northeast of Lake Chad. The early origins of the kingdom are believed to date as far as the seventh-century AD with the settlement of the Zaghawa people. The Sefawa dynasty replaced the Zaghawa in the early eleventh-century.

        Njimi was thought to be the capital of Kanem, with a centralized form of governance. However, no one seems to know exactly where Njimi was located.

Abu ‘l-Fida, a thirteenth-century politician and scholar from Syria quoted Ibn Said’s