Usman dan Fodio

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What Wikipedia says

Shehu Usman dan Fodio (Arabic: عثمان بن فودي, romanized: ʿUthmān ibn Fūdī; 15 December 1754 – 20 April 1817) was a Fulani Islamic scholar, theologian, religious teacher, poet, author, revolutionary, general, and philosopher who founded the Sokoto Caliphate and ruled as its first caliph.

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