Kingdoms & Monarchies

Cradle of Hausa civilisation (the Bayajidda myth — slaying of Sarki the snake — is set at Daura). One of the original Hausa Bakwai. Reigning: HRH Dr Umar Faruk Umar (since 2007). President Muhammadu Buhari hails from Daura.

Twentieth-century emirate elevated to first-class in 1992.

Sub-emirates of Katsina.

District stools.

• Last, *The Sokoto Caliphate* (1967).
• Hogben & Kirk-Greene, *The Emirates of Northern Nigeria* (1966).

• [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.*

Katsina's thrones: the Emir of Katsina — the senior stool, whose Habe line at Durbi-ta-Kusheyi predates the jihad by several centuries and whose Fulani line begins with Ummarun Dallaji (1806); the Emir of Daura, the oldest of the seven Hausa Bakwai states and, in the Bayajidda tradition, the origin of them all, historically ruled by the Magajiya queens (Kufuru, Gino, Yakumo, Daura herself) before the male line; the Emir of Daura at Zango; the Emir of Dutsin-Ma; the Emir of Funtua; the Emir of Malumfashi; the Emir of Kankia; the Emir of Mani; the Emir of Mashi; the Emir of Musawa; and the Emir of Safana. Katsina Emirate also produced the northern political class of the First Republic: the emirate's Council supplied both a Prime Minister's home constituency and, in the 1970s, the Katsina College network that ran the federal civil service.

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.

Daura complicates the rule more sharply than anywhere else in the north: the Daura king-list opens with nine reigning Magajiya queens, and the title survives in the emirate as a female chieftaincy conferred on a princess.