Kingdoms & Monarchies

Founded 1807 by Mallam Zaki (Yerimari). One of Sokoto's eastern frontier emirates against Borno.

Founded 1827 by Ardo Salihu; granted a flag by Bello.

Founded 1811; Fulani pastoral aristocracy.

Bauchi sub-thrones over Sayawa, Zaar and Jarawa communities — chronic flashpoints of indigene–settler conflict (1991, 1995, 2011 Tafawa Balewa crises).

Recognised as a separate chiefdom only in 1995 after decades of demands; long-running dispute with the Bauchi Emirate Council.

• Last, *The Sokoto Caliphate* (1967).
• Adeleye, *Power and Diplomacy in Northern Nigeria 1804–1906* (1971).
• HRW, *They Do Not Own This Place* (2006) — on Bauchi indigene/settler.

• [Principal historic polity — TBC] → [1900 Native Authority — TBC] → [1976 LGA — TBC] → [today's Federal Constituency — TBC]
• [Secondary polity / sub-emirate / clan — TBC] → [1900 NA — TBC] → [1976 LGA — TBC] → [today's Federal Constituency — TBC]
• [Minority / highland / clan throne — TBC] → [1900 NA — TBC] → [1976 LGA — TBC] → [today's Federal Constituency — TBC]

*Each row is a unit of continuous administrative life — the same population, in the same district, under successive labels. Read across to see what the British Native Authority captured, what Murtala's 1976 LGA reform redrew, and what today's Federal Constituency makes electorally visible. TBC = to be confirmed from the state's chieftaincy gazette, NA Ordinance files (NAK / NAI), and the INEC delimitation map.*

Bauchi's first-class stools, beyond the Emir of Bauchi (the Yakubun Bauchi line founded by Yakubu dan Dadi in 1805 under the Sokoto jihad): Emir of Katagum, Emir of Misau, Emir of Jama'are, Emir of Ningi (founded in open rebellion against Kano and never fully absorbed into the Caliphate), Emir of Dass, Emir of Duguri, and the non-emirate chiefdoms of the southern belt — the Sarkin Zaar of Tafawa Balewa, the Sarkin Warji, and the Gerawa, Jarawa and Sayawa traditional councils whose demand for first-class status has been the state's longest-running chieftaincy dispute and the trigger of the recurrent Tafawa Balewa crises.

In the Sokoto-tradition emirates the Emir's household is ordered by title, not by publicity. The senior wife is the Uwar Soro ("mother of the chamber"), who runs the interior of the palace and the female household staff; the Magajiya is a titled woman of the court, in many emirates a princess rather than a wife, with jurisdiction over women's affairs, and in the pre-jihad Hausa states the *Magajiya* was in several cities a reigning queen in her own right (Daura's Magajiya line, Zazzau's Amina). Other palace female titles include Mai Babban Daki (the queen-mother's title, notably in Kano, held by the Emir's mother rather than his wife) and Yar Daji. The names of a serving Emir's wives are, by settled custom in most of these palaces, not published; they appear in the emirate's own *takarda* household register and in genealogies, not in the gazette. We record the offices and leave the names to the palace.