Dakauta

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Dakauta was a Sultan of Kano who reigned for only one day in 1452.{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274508274_Historical_Metaphors_in_the_Kano_Chronicle|title=Historical Metaphors in the Kano Chronicle|date=1980|last=Last|first=Murray|work=History in Africa|volume=7|pages=161-178|doi=10.2307/3171660}}{{citation |editor-last=Palmer |editor-first=Herbert Richmond |editor-link=Herbert Richmond Palmer |title=The Kano Chronicle |work=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |volume= 38 |year=1908 |pages=58-98 |url= https://archive.org/stream/v38a39journalofro38royauoft#page/n87/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive | ref=none }}; in [https://books.google.com/books?id=NsYEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58 Google Books]. {{PD-notice}}

Biography in the ''Kano Chronicle''

Below is a biography of Dakauta from Palmer's 1908 English translation of the Kano Chronicle.{{citation |editor-last=Palmer |editor-first=Herbert Richmond |editor-link=Herbert Richmond Palmer |title=The Kano Chronicle |work=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |volume= 38 |year=1908 |pages=58-98 |url= https://archive.org/stream/v38a39journalofro38royauoft#page/n87/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive | ref=none }}; in [https://books.google.com/books?id=NsYEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58 Google Books]. {{PD-notice}}

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|text=The 17th Sarki was Dakauta. He was dumb. The people said, “If he becomes Sarki he will be able to speak.”

When he had been made Sarki, and after one night did not speak, they turned him out again.

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