Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Njimi was the capital of the Kanuri state of Kanem (later Kanem-Bornu), north of Lake Chad. Founded by the Sefawa dynasty in the eleventh century, the town dominated trans-Saharan trade in ivory and slaves between the central Sahara and Libya. The precise location of Njimi has yet to be determined. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.