Adamawa

According to UNESCO, the Tikar dynasty settled in Adamawa broke apart around the fourteenth century, after the death of its last ruler, Ndéh: several waves of migration led by his descendants then reached the western and north-western highlands, where they founded separate kingdoms. In the early nineteenth century the Fulani scholar Modibo Adama, given a standard by Usman dan Fodio, led a series of campaigns in the region of Fombina from which the Adamawa emirate emerged, one of the largest in the Sokoto empire; its capital settled at Yola, in present-day Nigeria, around 1841.