Mandara and Bornu ResistanceNigeria / Cameroon / Chad · 1890–1902“Listen well: this telling travelled far to reach our circle.”Around Lake Chad at the century's turn, three European empires arrived almost simultaneously — French columns from the west, British from the south, German from the coast — into a basin where Bornu had been a state for nine hundred years and Mandara's hill kingdom had submitted to no one.