7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Songhai Empire
The songhai empire, like gana and mali before it, had clear laws of succession. And while the askia mohammed made many legal reforms during his reign, this seems to have been something that no one had mustered the political will to change. The chronicle tarihel fatash doesn't mince words when it comes to the question of what led to sunghai's growing weakness. What brought divine punishment down upon its citizens? It was their failure to observe the laws of god, the injustice of slavery. We all belong to god. It is to him that we should return.
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