Dunama III

Dunama III (Dunama bin Ibrāhīm and. Both figures are omitted in lists translated by Heinrich Barth (1851) and Richmond Palmer (1936). Nachtigal left Idris's regnal years as "?" and assigned a seven-year reign to Dunama, Cohen (1966) stated that their absence in Barth and Palmer's lists suggest that Dunama and Idris were only vaguely remembered by the 19th century, and considered it possible that they were the same person, that one of them reigned briefly during the reign of the other, or that neither actually reigned. In his list of Kanem–Bornu rulers, Bosworth (2012) includes Idris "and/or" Dunama.

Both Nachtigal and Landeroin name Dunama III's father as Ibrahim. Nachtigal further specified that this Ibrahim was a son of mai Dawud Nikalemi.