Kade I
{{Infobox monarch|
| name = Kade I
| succession = Mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire
| reign = 13th century
| predecessor = Dunama II Dabbalemi
| successor = Kashim Bir
| spouse = Fatima
| issue = Abdullah II
| house = Sayfawa dynasty
| house-type = Dynasty
| father = Dunama II Dabbalemi
| mother = Matala
}}
Kade I (Kade bin Dunama{{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Clifford Edmund |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_Islamic_Dynasties/maQxEAAAQBAJ |title=The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual |date=2012 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year= |isbn=0-7486-2137-7 |pages=126 |orig-year=1996}}) was mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire at some point between 1259 and 1290, in a period of succession conflict between the sons of Dunama II Dabbalemi.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Ronald |url=https://archive.org/details/bostonuniversity02bost |title=Boston University Papers on Africa: Volume II: African History |date=1966 |publisher=Boston University Press |pages=80 |chapter=The Bornu King Lists}} Kade was a son of Dunama II and his consort Matala, and was Dunama's initial successor. The only event recorded of Kade's reign is that he was murdered by a man named Andakama Dunama.{{Cite book |last=Barth |first=Heinrich |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Travels_and_Discoveries_in_North_and_Cen/la_zIUj0oiwC |title=Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken... 1849-1855 |date=1857 |publisher=Longmans |pages=638 |language=en}} He was succeeded as mai by his brother Kashim Bir.
Kade's consort was named Fatima. They had at least one son together, Abdullah II, who would later claim the Kanem–Bornu throne.
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{{Kanem–Bornu rulers}}
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Category:Rulers of the Kanem Empire
Category:13th-century monarchs in Africa
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