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Jun 29, 2008 · E. W. Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968); Thomas A. Hale and Nouhou Malio, Scribe, Griot and Novelist: Narrative Interpretations of the Songhay Empire (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990); Kevin Shillington, History of Africa (New York: Palgrave, 2005); Ari Nave, “Songhai Empire” in Africana, The Encyclopedia of the African & African ...
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The Mali Empire was the second of three West African empires...
- Mansa Musa
- Decline of The Mali Empire
- King Sunni Ali
- The Songhai & Trade
- Songhai Government
- King Mohammad I
- Islam & Animism
- Why Did The Songhai Empire Decline?
The Mali Empire, located along the savannah belt between the Sahara desert to the north and the forests of southern West Africa (often referred to as the Sudan region), had prospered through its control of local and international trade, especially in goldand salt, since the mid-13th century. However, the empire began to collapse in the 1460s follow...
The kingdom of Songhai dates back to at least the 9th century and was contemporary with the Ghana Empire(6-13th century) further to the east. It was dominated by and named after the Songhay (aka Sonhrai), a group of Nilo-Saharan-speaking peoples. Although conquered by the Mali Empire, the Songhai people would prove troublesome and powerful because ...
By 1469 the Songhai had control of the important trade 'port' of Timbuktu on the Niger River. In 1471 the Mossi territories south of the Niger River bend were attacked, and by 1473 the other major trade centre of the region, Djenne, also on the Niger, had been conquered. Unfortunately for Sunni Ali though, all this new territory did not give him ac...
The Songhai government was much more centralised in respect of the more federal arrangements of the earlier Ghana and Mali Empires. The ruler was an absolute monarch but despite having around 700 eunuchs at his court in Gao, the Songhai kings were never quite secure on their thrones. Of the nine rulers in the Songhai Empire's history, six were eith...
King Mohammad I (r. 1494-1528), a former Songhai army commander who had wrested the throne from Sunni Ali's son, Sonni Baro, began the use of the dynastic title Askiya or Askia(meaning 'ruler' or perhaps even 'usurper ruler'). The new king, forming a fully professional army for the first time, would oversee the greatest territorial extent of the So...
The Islamic religion, long-established in other empires in the Sudan region like Ghana and Mali, had a somewhat precarious existence in the Songhai Empire, at least initially. King Sunni Ali observed certain Islamic practices like the Ramadan fast for political expediency only (he also sacrificed animals to trees and supported pagan sorcerers) and ...
The Songhai Empire began to shrink around the edges, especially in the west, from the last quarter of the 16th century. This was largely due to a string of ineffectual leaders and civil wars for the right of succession which had blighted the empire ever since the death of King Mohammad in 1528. One particular rivalry, between Mohammad IV Bano (r. f...
- Mark Cartwright
The Empire of Songhay, 1375-1591: Memory and Heritage of a Glorious Past A Historiographical Essay by George Kintiba, Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park, MD Introduction This is a historiographical essay on the empire of Songhay In this entire article we chose the spelling Songhay over Songhai in order to have uniformity with the ...
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Jan 1, 2018 · 1800 class note, Howard University Fall 2009). ... Hunwick, who has specialized in Songhay history, writes about the city of Gao according to Arabic sources of the .
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Quick Reference. A former West African empire on the Niger River and the name of the people and their language, which is spoken in Mali. Tradition claims that a Berber Christian, al-Yaman, founded Songhay in the 7th century ad on Kukiya Island, below Gao. The rulers became Muslim ( c. 1200) and transferred the capital to Gao.
