Malam Usman

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Malam Usman

African religious leader

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Jemaa
…town originated about 1810, when Malam Usman, a Muslim preacher, assumed the leadership of Fulani herdsmen who had fled from Kajuru (75 miles [121 km] northwest) and founded the settlement of Jema’an-Darroro (“Followers of a Learned Man from Darroro”). He made Jemaa an emirate and a vassal state of the…
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…town originated about 1810, when Malam Usman, a Muslim preacher, assumed the leadership of Fulani herdsmen who had fled from Kajuru (75 miles [121 km] northwest) and founded the settlement of Jema’an-Darroro (“Followers of a Learned Man from Darroro”). He made Jemaa an emirate and a vassal state of the…
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