Kukawa

Kuka ( Kukaua, Kukawa ) is a former capital of Bornu in the central Sudan, not far west of Lake Chad in Nigeria today.

Kuka consisted of two different, about a kilometer distant cities. In the western city (area about 4 km ²) most people lived here and also the most trade was driven. The eastern city mainly included the palaces of the Sheik. The population was estimated at about 50,000 to 60,000, with the suburbs of 100,000 inhabitants. At the weekly market days, they increased by more than 10,000, most of which were involved in the slave trade.

1870 and 1872 took the German African traveler Gustav Nachtigal two trips to Kuka, which he describes in his letters to his family in Germany.

1894, the city of Rabeh, the ruler of Bornu, was conquered and destroyed.