Shettima Alkali Kolo

Biography & Notes

Ba Shettima Alkali Kolo (Ba’a Lari Kolo) was a profound Islamic scholar who migrated from Yemen to Bama, Borno State, where he pursued Islamic education and later became known as **Shettima**, a Kanuri title for a learned Islamic scholar. He married 3 wives, Ammahkura, Ya Chellu, and Andai and had 23 children, 95 grandchildren, and 25 great-grandchildren among the descendants recorded so far. His family has therefore grown into a large, multi-generational lineage rooted in Islamic scholarship, Kanuri heritage, and the family’s ancestral history from Yemen to Bama, Borno State.