7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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A Brief History of the Kingdom of Songhai
The earliest written records mentioning the kingdom of songhai appear in the tenth century. They mention a small kingdom on the banks of the niger eand for much of its history, that's all it was. So these are the sources we have to rely on - fragmentary, unreliable accounts of arab travellers and greot story tellers. Because of the naturally unreliable nature of all of these sources, the history of this region is filled with many gaps and blank spaces. i will attempt to navigate as we go forwards.
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