'Africa's Golden Empire! THE REAL 'WAKANDA' The 'Songhai' Empire. Fall Of Civilizations' West 'Africa'

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"The 'African' Age of Gold" Africa's 'Songhai Empire' 'Fall Of Civilizations' Podcast

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The Songhai Empire was a great trading state of West Africa that flourished from the 15th to the 16th century. It was centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali and eventually extending west to the Atlantic coast and east into Niger and Nigeria. It replaced the Mali Empire as the most important state in West Africa. The Songhai people broke away from Mali control after Mansa Musa's death. The empire was ruled by the Sonni dynasty (c. 1464–1493), but it was later replaced by the Askiya dynasty (1493–1591). At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history, with several thousand cultures under its control. Conquest, centralization, and standardization were the most ambitious and far-reaching in sub-Saharan history until the colonization of the continent by Europeans.

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Today, the Songhai Empire is all but forgotten by history. But this medieval kingdom was once the most powerful force in Africa.

Find out how this civilization grew up on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, among some of the most extreme conditions that nature can throw at us. Discover how it grew and flourished, passing through a process known as the imperial cycle, and learn about what ultimately caused its sudden and dramatic collapse.

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Credits:

Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas

Voice Actors:

Jake Barrett-Mills
Rhy Brignell
Bryan Tshiobi
Pip Willett

Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: incompetech.com/

Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/

Special thanks to the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) and Emma Silvester at Royal African Safaris for footage of the Dabous Giraffe: www.africanrockart.org

In this episode, we look at a civilization that has all but faded from memory in many parts of the world.

Find out how this remarkable society rose up out of an age of conflict and fragmentation, how it built one of the largest and most impressive medieval cities in the world, and developed an identity in nature, and global in its outlook. With readings and sounds of traditional music, find out what happened to bring the great stone temples crashing down in fire and flame.

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