Masarautar Kotoko

Masarautar Kotoko ta kasance masarautar mallaka ce ta Afirka a wacce yau take arewacin Kamaru da Najeriya, da kuma kudu maso yammacin Chadi . An san mazaunan daular a matsayin mutanen Kotoko. 

Habakar Kotoko ta samo asaline a lokacin faɗuwar daular Sao a arewacin Kamaru. Wani sarki ya zama shugaban su har ya shugabanci jihar kuma ya mara mata  baya, wanda ya zo ya mamaye wasu kananan dauloli. Daga cikin wadannan akwai Kousséri, Logone-Birni, Makari, da Mara. sasssan Kotoko ya watsu ne cikin sassan abin da yake yanzu arewacin Kamaru da Najeriya, da kuma kudu maso yammacin Chadi har zuwa tsakiyar karni na 15. Logone-Birni ya bayyana a matsayin wanda ya fi tasiri a masarautar a matsayin shi na abokin ciniki ta Kotoko. 

Masarautar Kanem ta kawo arewacin Kotoko cikin yanayin tasiri tun da farko. Ta hanyar ayyukan mishaneri da masu cin garuruwa da mamaye su, yawancin yan arewacin  Kotoko sun musulunta zuwa ƙarni na 19. A wannan karnin ne Kotoko kansa ya kasance cikakke a cikin Daular Bornu, kuma Musulunci ya ci gaba da yaduwa. Sarakunan Bornu sun rarraba yankin zuwa yankuna na arewa da na kudu, wanda ya ba da izinin Logone-Birni a kudu don ci gaba da wani matsayi na mulkin kai a ƙarƙashin babban sarki . Logone-Birni ya kasu zuwa lardunan da ke karkashin shugabanni. 

Kotoko, da  Bornu, sun rarrabu ne da juna a dalilin ikon Turawan mulkin mallaka a lokacin mulkin Afirka. A wannan zamanin, an samu rashin jituwa da rikici a tsakanin Kotoko da Larabawa Shuwa . 

 Diddigin bayanai 

 DeLancey, Mark W., da DeLancey, Mark Dike (2000). Kundin tarihi na Jamhuriyar Kamaru . Na uku ed. 
 Fanso, VG (1989). Tarihin Kamaru don Makarantun Sakandare da Kwaleji: Juzu'i na 1: Tarihi prehistoric zuwa karni na sha tara . London: Macmillan Education Ltd. 
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