Babban Zaki

Babban Zaki wanda aka fi sani da Jan Rano Sultan ne na Kano wanda ya yi mulki daga 1768 zuwa 1776. Ɗaya daga cikin manyan sarakuna na gidan Kutumbi, ya warware rikitarwa na tsarin rikitarwa da ke Kano kuma ya samar da tsari don nasarar gudanarwa wanda zai tsira har ma bayan faduwar Kutumbawa. Ta hanyar amfani da karfi da leken asiri, ya haifar da tsari daga rikici ta hanyar sanya jami'an gwamnati a kan juna da kuma rushe hanyoyin sadarwa tsakanin shugabannin jihar don kauce wa tawaye. Shine kuma Sarki na farko daya ba da makamai ga masu tsaron sarauta na Kano.

 Sarauta 
"Ya kasance Sarki mai iyawa, mai ƙarfi sosai, sananne ne saboda ƙwaƙwalwarsa da magana, An kira shi Babban Zaki.... Saboda haka an kira shi Jan Rano, mai suna mai tayar da giwaye".

Shine ɗan fari na 'ya'ya maza uku na Yaji II. Sunan mahaifiyarsa ya kasance. Tarihin Kano ya watsar da sunansa na haihuwa, babban Zaki, yana nufin "Babban Zaki". An kuma yaba masa da "Jan Rano, Gasa Giwa", wanda ke fassara zuwa "The three pronged fork who roasts elephants" a cikin danganta ga ikonsa a kan shugabannin Kano.

Duk da yake mulkin Kutumbawa ya kasance sananne ne ta hanyar watsar da iko tsakanin jami'an Jiha, a cikin mulkin Babban Zaki, ya gurgunta tasirin jami'ansa don kauce wa tawaye wanda ya zama ruwan dare a cikin mulkin magabata. Ya murkushe irin wadannan tawaye biyu a kan Birnin Auyau da Burum Burum.

An ce ya yi fashi da shugabannin kansa kuma ya tilasta musu yin yaƙi da yaƙe-yaƙe ta amfani da dabarunsa ba tare da son zuciyarsu ba. Ya ci gaba da yanke hanyoyin sadarwa tsakanin su kuma ya tabbatar da hanyoyin sadarwa kai tsaye sun kai shi ta hanyar bayinsa. A lokacinsa, babu wanda aka yarda ya gan shi, har ma da iyalinsa, sai dai ta hanyar bayinsa kuma a lokutan yaƙi, da wuya ya tafi fagen yaƙi da kansa. Ya kuma kafa leken asiri na jihar. Daga cikin mutanen da ya fi amincewa da su, ya sami damar kula da daidaito a cikin maganin su ta yadda kowannensu ya yi tunanin kansa ne wanda Sultan ya fi so.

 Tarihin rayuwa a cikin Tarihin Kano 
Da ke ƙasa akwai tarihin Babba Zaki daga fassarar Turanci ta Palmer ta 1908 na Kano Chronicle .Palmer, Herbert Richmond, ed. (1908), "The Kano Chronicle", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 38, pp. 58–98 – via Internet Archive; in Google Books. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. 

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