Yakufu
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| reign = 1565
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| predecessor = Muhammad Kisoki
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| house = Bagauda Dynasty
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| father = Muhammad Kisoki
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Yakufu was a Sultan of Kano who reigned in 1565.{{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 Yakufu 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 23rd Sarki was Yakufu. His mother's name was Tunus.
He was Sarkin Kano 4 months and 20 days. Guli deposed him. The Galadiman Kano Sara Katunia and Guli carried on civil war. There was 40 days’ fighting in Kano before the Galadima overcame and killed Guli and determined to reestablish Yakufu on the throne. Yakufu refused, and returned among the learned men to study. So he went and lived in the country which bears the name of Yakufawa.
He was the father of Mohamma Shashere, Dauda Abasama, Sarkin Taura, Buduru, Sarkin Majia, Sarkin Gilima, Sarkin Kazura and Sarkin Gwunaka.
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