Kanembu people

Kanembu ( also French Kanembou or Kanem ) is the name of the east of Lake Chad living in the present-day Republic Chad people.

The people of the Kanembu has emerged from the kingdom of Kanem and also bears his name: Kanem -bu - " people of Kanem ." Just as the language Kanembu merely a dialect of spoken west of Lake Chad in Kanuri of Bornu, Kanem and Bornu were so united until the beginning of the 19th century as part of the Kanem -Bornu Empire under the rule of Sefuwa. Only from the late 14th until the second half of the 16th century ruled the Bulala about Kanem. Today the Kanembu live mostly in the administrative region of Kanem east of Lake Chad in the Republic of Chad with the seat of the prefect in Mao. Among the Kanembu are members of the immigrant from Nigeria subgroup of Bornu ( Nigerian name: Kan.).