Adamawa Wars

Adamawa Wars

German Map of Guinean Gulf Area, 1890
(German Kamerun highlighted in thin black stripes, bordered by the Emirate of Adamawa to the North East)
DateJanuary 1899 – August 1907
Location
Adamawa, Northern Cameroon
Result

German victory

  • Annexation of Adamawa
  • Along with British actions in Nigeria, the dissolution of the Sokoto Caliphate
Belligerents

German Empire German Empire

Co-belligerent

 British Empire

Sokoto Caliphate

Mahdist Rebels
Commanders and leaders
German Empire Jesko von Puttkamer
German Empire Curt von Pavel [de]
German Empire Rudolf Cramer von Clausbruch [de]
German Empire Hans Dominik
British Empire Thomas Morland
Abdur Rahman Atiku
Muhammad Attahiru I
Zubeiru bi Adama
Mal Alhadji
Goni Waday

The Adamawa Wars (1899–1907) were initially a series of military expeditions and border conflicts between the German Schutztruppe in Kamerun and the Fula Sunni Muslim states and tribes that were a part of the Sokoto Empire (a Caliphate formed during the Fulani Jihad), particularly the Emirate of Adamawa in the northern half of the region.[1] After these territories were annexed major resistance continued for years and several uprisings occurred.

  1. ^ Smith, Woodruff D. (1978). German Colonial Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 81. ISBN 9781469610252. Retrieved 26 May 2021.