Barbushe was a hunter and pagan chief priest who was the most prominent leader of the indigenous animists of Dala, a place which would become the most important site in the history of the foundation of Kano, now a state in Northern Nigeria.
[1] Indigenous minority of pagans still residing in an around northern Nigeria proport the oral record of Barbushe's lineage going back by the chiefs of the ancestral animist tribes recollection 40 to 50 generations before the arrival of Bagauda an Islam.
He was exceptionally strong and a skilled hunter who would kill elephants with his stick and carry them on his back for miles.
Barbushe soon emerged as the most skilled sorcerer among the pagans as his power and knowledge of the secrets of tsumburbura was unrivaled.
[2] Barbushe had other chiefs including Gunzago, Gagiwa, Gubanasu, Doje, Janbere, Gamakura, Hangogo, Safatoro, Gartsangi, Bardoje, Kafantau, Nisau, Jandamisa and Jigira.
Barbushe warned that this man will burn their sacred three, build a mosque and his people would gain dominion over them for years.
Bagauda soon after waged war on the people and killed the leader of the pagans, giving birth to the kingdom of Kano in 999 CE.