Nigeria
Gwandu, likewise called Gando, town and customary emirate, Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria. It lies almost a part of the Zamfara River, a feeder of the Sokoto.
Initially settled by the Kebbawa, a subgroup of the Hausa public, the town was named for the encompassing gandu ("illustrious farmlands") that once in the past had a place with Muhammadu Kanta, who established the Kebbi realm in the sixteenth century. Despite the fact that Fulani herders had nibbled their cows in Kebbi domain for quite a long time, not until the period (1804–12) of the Fulani jihad (blessed war) did Gwandu become a significant Fulani town. In 1805, Usman dan Fodio, the jihad chief, moved the jihad central command from Sabongari to Gwandu. Muḥammad Bello, his child and replacement (1817), started development of the town's dividers in 1806. After the Fulani triumph over the Gobirawa at Alkalawa in 1808, Usman split his tremendous domain, which at that point reached out over the vast majority of what is presently northern and focal Nigeria, into two ranges of authority. He made his sibling Abdullahi dan Fodio emir of Gwandu and overlord of the western and southern emirates (1809) and put Bello accountable for the eastern emirates. From 1815 Abdullahi kept up Gwandu as one of the two capitals of the Fulani domain.
The Gwandu emirate got recognition from its vassal emirates, including Nupe, Ilorin, Yauri, Agaie, Lafiagi, and Lapai in Nigeria, until the British showed up in 1903. The town had by then become a train community for desert items from the north and woodland items, strikingly kola nuts, from the south. Gwandu offered no military protection from the British occupation. The Gwandu emirate was impressively diminished in size by British cessions to French West Africa in 1907. Its emir, nonetheless, remains the third most significant Muslim customary pioneer in Nigeria, following just the sarkin musulmi of Sokoto and the shehu (king) of Bornu.
The town of Gwandu stays a gathering point for peanuts (groundnuts), tobacco, and rice; it additionally fills in as a significant neighborhood market focus in millet, sorghum, onions, bananas, cotton, goats, cows, skins, and kola nuts. Pop. (2006) neighborhood government region, 151,019.