Hamman Yaji

 ( 1860s Births ) 

Muhammad Hamman Yaji (c.1863–1929) was Emir of Madagali, Nigeria, part of the Adamawa Emirate. He is known for his personal diary which records daily life and activities from 1912 to 1927 as a Fula people raider and slave trader near the border of present-day Adamawa State, Nigeria, and Mayo-Tsanaga, Far North Region, Cameroon.

James H. Vaughan (2025). 9780195382075, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780195382075

Over a nine-year period, Yaji reportedly carried out over one hundred raids, rustling much livestock, enslaving some 2,016 captives, and killing at least two hundred men, one hundred and sixty-eight of whom he notes specifically.

Toby Green (2018). 9789004348837, BRILL. . ISBN 9789004348837

Originally written in Arabic, his diary provides a rare local perspective on early 20th century sub-Saharan daily life under colonial rule.

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Further reading

• Paul E. Lovejoy (1993). 9780521374699, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521374699
• Hamman Yaji (1995). 9780253362063, Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253362063

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See also

• Muhammed Bello

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