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the earlier pre-colonial history of our wider subregion. We wondered whether the tail end of
the DGB sites and the siege of the Kirawa foothill by the Borno king Idris Alauma, which
ended the rule of the 'Pagan usurper' of Kirawa, was a time when Durghwe might have been
significant as a subregional rain shrine. After all, it overlooks the Kirawa foothill where the
'Pagan usurper' was held under siege, and where he was eventually forced to surrender. We
already showed in previous chapters that this event was linked to a phase of great aridity, and
that the following hundred years of high rainfall most likely initiated the formation of the
Dghweɗe as we came to know them. We want to stress once more that this development most
likely coincided with the end of the DGB period and the move of the rulers of Kirawa, first to
Doulo and then to Mora at the eastern foot of the northern Mandara Mountains.
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