Dirke Kelem (Dirke Kelem bin Dunama) was mai (ruler) of the KanemâÂÂBornu Empire in the mid-to-late 13th century. A son of mai Dunama II Dibalemi, Dirke Kelem ruled during a several decade-long period of succession conflict between the sons of Dunama. The precise sequence and chronology of mais is unclear in this period, which lasted from Dunama's death to the rise of Ibrahim I Nikale.
Dirke Kelem is recorded in lists of KanemâÂÂBornu rulers (girgams) translated by Gustav Nachtigal (1881), (1911), and in the work of Yves Urvoy (1941). He is omitted in lists translated by Heinrich Barth (1851) and Richmond Palmer (1936). Among later authors, Dirke Kelem is omitted by Lange (1984) and Stewart (1989), but included by Bosworth (2012).