Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II

The history of sending monarchs into exile and how Nigerians stood against it

Dethroning a monarch in Africa in the past was usually a big deal and sometimes, a matter of life and death.

Emir Sanusi
Sanusi, his grandfather and three other top monarchs who have been dethroned

During the pre-colonial era in Nigeria, monarchs, from Obas in the southwest to Emirs in…