Songhai

Ur Aua (Paramount King) Hehimetu Ra Enkamit, member of the Washington D.C Traditional Area of Ausar Auset Society International (AASI), has called for the replication of the Songhai Sustainability Project in Ghana to stop the migration of the youth to the urban centres for nonexistent jobs.

It marked the end of the Songhai Empire, the largest empire Africa has known, with its world-class university at Timbuktu.

On the voyage the king also acquired the territory of Gao within the Songhai kingdom, extending his territory to the southern edge of the Sahara Desert along the Niger River.

Mali was the second of three great West African medieval empires, coming after the Kingdom of Ghana and before the Songhai Empire.

Meanwhile, from the thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century the Songhai Empire was expanded on both banks of the middle Niger.

Indeed, the fortunes of great and powerful empires like Songhai, Mali and Kanem-Bornu, among others, ebbed and flowed with the idiosyncrasies of the trade.

Although each one of the ancient Sub-Saharan African civilizations--like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, and Benin Empire--had its own peculiar challenges, the defining commonalities among them were survival and self-actualization.

In 1464 king Ali of Gao on the Niger River, led his mounted cavalry to conquer the region and create the Songhai empire.

Men and boys, primarily of Songhai ethnicity, were subjected to a long-standing practice of debt bondage in the salt mines of Taoudeni in northern Mali.

The Secretary revealed that CPEC Shipping Service route has been finalized and it includes Dubai, Gawadar, Karachi and Songhai.

1591 - Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai