 Emerging at the end of the Basasa, his reign was marked by a series of costly wars and fortification projects that heavily militarised the erstwhile commercial Emirate.His escapades as Emir of Kano were recorded in the official historical canon of the Kano Emirate ; the "Tarikh Al Kano".The ballad of Ali Zaki, commemorates his reign as the last Emir of Kano.