The various political entities that made up the historical and geographical region known as Hausaland have had a long and checkered history of political transformation. Most of those entities evolved as autonomous geo-political units before the 19th Century. The establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate in the 19th Century, however, led to the assemblage of most of these polities into emirates under the authority of the Caliphate. Nonetheless, there were other entities that retained their pre-jihad political structures and only paid tribute to the Caliphate. These entities were only transformed into emirates after colonial conquest in the early 20th Century. The British colonial masters transformed these kingdoms into emirates mainly for administrative convenience. Yawuri is one of these kingdoms. This paper explores the history of the political transformation of Yawuri from its emergence as a kingdom down to the period of its transformation into an emirate. It locates the socio-historical and political peculiarities of Yawuri and explained why Yawuri, unlike many Hausa kingdoms, did not transform into an emirate following the establishment of the Caliphate.