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Song·hai

also Song·hay (sông′hī′, sŏng-gī′)

An ancient empire of western Africa in present-day Mali. It was founded c. 700 by Berbers and reached the height of its power around 1500.

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Songhai

(sɒŋˈɡaɪ)

npl -ghai or -ghais

1. (Peoples) a member of a Nilotic people of W Africa, living chiefly in Mali and Niger in the central Niger valley

2. (Languages) the language or group of dialects spoken by this people, now generally regarded as forming a branch of the Nilo-Saharan family

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Songhai - a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger

Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language - a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania

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In 1492, a coup d'etat brought a Muslim ruler, Askia Muhammad, to the throne of the great empire of Songhay, and for the next hundred years, Songhay ruled much of West Africa.

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Rouch, Jean, Contribution a l'histoire des Songhay. Dakar: Institute Francais d'Afrique Noire (IFAN), 1953.

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We must never forget that one of the main factors which contributed to the destruction of African civilisations in Kemet (ancient Egypt) in the north, Ghana, Mali and Songhay in the west and Great Zimbabwe in the east, was a failure of our ancestors to have well organised and properly trained regular army.

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At the same time society remains silent about the truth that ancient African empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay were centers of trade, commerce learning, rivaling Europe in both size and sophistication; that Africans smelted iron and developed steel hundreds of years before the Europeans learned that process; and that in 300 bc, Kenyans built an astronomical site and devised a prehistoric calendar based on perfect astronomical alignment.