Dakauta was a Sultan of Kano who reigned for only one day in 1452.[1][2]
^Last, Murray (1980). "Historical Metaphors in the Kano Chronicle". History in Africa. 7: 161–178. doi:10.2307/3171660.
^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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Dakauta was a Sultan of Kano who reigned for only one day in 1452. Below is a biography of Dakauta from Palmer's 1908 English translation of the Kano Chronicle...
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