Ashimi ko Hashim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-1893) shine Shehu na Borno daga ca.1885 zuwa 1893. Ashimi ya zama shehun Borno ne a shekarar 1885 a lokacin da dan uwansa Ibrahim Kura ya rasu. Kamar yadda ya riga ya kasance ga magabatansa guda biyu, zamanin mulkinsa ya kasance cikin tsananin rikici na siyasa da tattalin arziki a Kukawa . Wani hafsan sojan Faransa wanda ya sadu da Ashimi a cikin 1892 ya yi imanin cewa ba shi da hannu kai tsaye game da tafiyar da mulkin; ya kuma bayar da rahoton cewa Shehu kamar mai tsoron Allah ne, a wajen ilimi, kuma ya kasance mai ƙyamar tunanin yaƙi. A shekarar 1893, Ashimi ya sha kashi a yakukuwa biyu da Rabih az-Zubayr wanda yake kokarin mamaye Borno. Yayan sa Kyari, wanda aka zaba ya zama sabon Shehu, ya kashe shi a N'galagati kusa da Geidam .   Louis Brenner, The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973), pp.125-130. ^ ^ Herbert Richmond Palmer, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936), p. 269.