{{Infobox monarch| | name = Kade II Afunu | succession = ''Mai'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire | reign = 14th century (1 year)<br/>{{Circa}} 1389–1390{{efn|name="KadeAfunu"}} | predecessor = Muhammad II Manza | successor = Biri III Uthman | death_date = {{circa}} 1390 | death_place = "Ghadhurú" | house = Sayfawa dynasty (Idrisid{{efn|The 14th and 15th centuries saw protracted civil wars between the rival Idrisid (descendants of Idris I Nikalemi) and Dawudid (descendants of Dawud Nikalemi) branches of the Sayfawa dynasty.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lange |first=Dierk |url=https://www.google.se/books/edition/Dictionary_of_African_Biography/39JMAgAAQBAJ |title=Dictionary of African Biography |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-538207-5 |pages=172–173 |language=en |chapter=Ali Gajideni}}</ref>}}) | house-type = Dynasty | father = Idris I Nikalemi }} '''Kade II''' (Kade bin Idrīs<ref name=":0232">{{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Clifford Edmund |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_Islamic_Dynasties/maQxEAAAQBAJ |title=The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual |date=2012 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year= |isbn=0-7486-2137-7 |pages=126 |orig-year=1996}}</ref>), called '''Kade Afunu'''<ref name=":0232" />{{efn|The name is also spelled ''A'fno'' and ''A'funu''.<ref name=":122">{{Cite book |last=Barth |first=Heinrich |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Travels_and_Discoveries_in_North_and_Cen/la_zIUj0oiwC |title=Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849–1855 |date=1857 |publisher=Longmans |pages=641 |language=en}}</ref>}} and '''Kade Auja''',<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Ronald |url=https://archive.org/details/bostonuniversity02bost |title=Boston University Papers on Africa: Volume II: African History |date=1966 |publisher=Boston University Press |pages=58, 63, 81 |chapter=The Bornu King Lists}}</ref> was briefly ''mai'' (ruler) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in the late 14th century, ruling approximately 1389–1390.{{efn|name="KadeAfunu"|King lists (''girgam''s) and chronicles translated in the 19th–20th centuries (Barth, Palmer, Urvoy, Nachtigal, Landeroin) all agree that Kade ruled for a single year.<ref name=":2" /> Due to differing dates and calculations for other ''mai''s, various dates have been given for his reign, including 1399–1400 (Barth), 1391–1392 (Palmer), 1388–1389 (Urvoy), 1398–1399 (Landeroin), and 1427–1428 (Nachtigal).<ref name=":2" /> Lange (1984) dated his reign to 1388–1389,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lange |first=Dierk |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000184287 |title=General history of Africa, IV: Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth century |date= |website= |publisher=University of California |year=1984 |isbn=978-92-3-101710-0 |editor-last=Niane |editor-first=Djibril Tamsir |pages=261 |language=en |chapter=The kingdoms and peoples of Chad}}</ref> Stewart (1989) dated it to 1399–1400,<ref name="Stewart">{{Cite book |last=Stewart |first=John |title=African States and Rulers: An Encyclopedia of Native, Colonial and Independent States and Rulers Past and Present |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=1989 |p=146}}</ref> and Bosworth (2012) dated it to 1389–1390.<ref name=":0232" />}} Kade ruled during the "Era of Instability", a chaotic period of internal and external conflict in the empire.

== Life == Kade was a son of ''mai'' Idris I Nikalemi.<ref name=":2" /> The name ''Afunu'' may mean that Kade's mother was of Hausa (A'fno) origin.<ref name=":122" /> Kade became ''mai'' in the late 14th century,<ref name=":0232" /> succeeding his brother Muhammad II Manza.<ref name=":2" />

The late 14th century was a time of acute political instability in Bornu, marked by internal conflict between members of the imperial family<ref name=":2" /> as well as external conflict, mainly with the Bilala in the east.<ref name=":122" /> Kanem, the empire's original heartland, had been lost to the Bilala a few years before Kade's reign, when the empire was ruled by Kade's brother Umar I Idrismi.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lange |first=Dierk |title=Dictionary of African Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-538207-5 |location= |pages=262 |chapter=Dunama Dibbalemi}}</ref> Kade resumed the offensive against the Bilala but was defeated and killed in battle at a site recorded as Ghadhurú (or variations thereof, such as Guluru or Gaduru),<ref name=":122" /><ref>Palmer, H. R. (1926). History Of The First Twelve Years Of The Reign Of Mai Idris Alooma Of Bornu (1571–1583) (Fartua, Ahmed Ibn). p. 113.</ref> after only a year on the throne.{{efn|name="KadeAfunu"}} Kade was succeeded as ''mai'' by his brother Biri III Uthman.<ref name=":122" /><ref name=":2" />

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== References == <references /> {{Kanem–Bornu rulers}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kade 02 Afunu}} Category:Rulers of the Bornu Empire Category:14th-century monarchs in Africa