Lawan Dambazau
Malam Lawan Dambazau (An haife shi a shekara ta alif dari tara da ashirin da biyu 1922) a dambazawa, ƙaramar hukumar ɗan batta dake garin Kano. ya dawo kano wajen ƴan uwan mahaifinsa lokacin yana da shekara biyar kuma a nan ya girma.

Farkon Rayuwa da Karatu
Ya fara karatun addini a garin kano, daga baya yayi kaura zuwa Maiduguri don neman ilimin addinin Musulunci. (Unguru, potiskum da Azare a shekara ta alif dari tara da arba'in1940) ya rubuta littafi da yawa kamar su “ A true Northerner Aminu Kano (1956), the struggle for Nepu and PRP (1992), politics and region in Nigeria (1992).

Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya dawo garin Kano inda ya haɗa gangami don wayar da kan mutane akan addini, zamantakewa dakuma siyasa, shi da manyan attajiran lokacinsa kamar su Ibrahim Waziri (1966-1992), Babban mawaƙi Aliyu Aƙilu dakuma Qadi Baffa Mahmud.

Siyasa 
Mallam lawan dambazau ya fara hidimar neman ƴanci tun kafin kafa NEPU a shekara ta 1950 sannan bayan kafa NEPU ya zama ɗaya daga cikin ƴan ƙungiyan. A lokacin sabon abu ne ga al’umma don suna tsoron yin gaba da gaba da turawan mulkin mallaka. Mallam Dambazau ya sami cikas da maqiya musamman a Maiduguri inda ya kafa jama’atul islamiyya (watau Islamic party). Shine sakataren janar na ƙumgiyar na farko, inda ya dsamu horo da azabtarwa matuƙa daga turawa, da maƙiyansa.
Mallam Dambazau  da Abokansa kamar su Aminu Kano (1920-1983) da Mallam Sa’ad Zungur (1914-1958), sunyi yaƙin neman ƴancin ƙasan nan tsakanin (1914-1958).
Mallam lawan mutum ne mara tsoro mai ɗumbin kwarjini da wanda wasu daga cikin shuwagabannin soja lokacin Gen. Olusugun Obasanjo, kan nemi shawara wurinsa kafin neman kujeran mulkin ƙasan.

Rasuwa 
Mallam Lawal Dambazau ya rasu a safiyar laraba 13th ga watan satimba shkara ta 2000. A asibitin horo na Aminu Kano a garin Kano (lokacin yan shekara 78 da rayuwa), bayan yayi jinya na ɗan lokaci. An burne shi misalin ƙarfe goma na safe a maƙabartar “kukar buluƙiya” a bisa tsarin musulunci. Ya rasu ya bar ƴaƴa 8 da mata guda (ƴaƴa- Abba, Halima, Rukayya, Zubaida, Bashir, Najib, Hassan & fauziyya).

Bibiliyo 
Shatsari SS. (1991) Tributes to a Hero of the Masses. Mallam Lawan Dambazau.

Manazarta 

Haifaffun 1922
Malaman Musulunci
Mutane daga Kano.