Kure II Kura

Kure II, called Kure Kura and Kure al-Kabir, was briefly mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in the early 14th century, ruling approximately 1327–1328.

Life

Kure II was a son of mai Abdullah II Kademi. He succeeded his younger brother Kure I Gana as mai in the early 14th century, after Kure I died in battle against the Sao of Bornu. The Sao lived south of Lake Chad and had been greatly reduced, but not completely subjugated or wiped out, under earlier mais. The Sao rose up against the empire in the time of mai Selema III, a brother of Kure I and Kure II who had also been killed by the Sao.
After a short reign, Kure was like his brothers also defeated and killed in battle by the Sao. He died at a site recorded as Ghaliwá, the same location where the Sao had killed Kure I. A contradictory tradition places his death at Kukawa, an error since that settlement was established in the 19th century. Kure II was succeeded as mai by another brother, Muhammad I Kure.