During the 14th century Songhay fell within the orbit of the Empire of Mali, but the rulers of Mali never managed to collect taxes from the people of Gao. In the fifteenth century Songhay rose to ...

The 15th century also saw the rise of the Songhai Empire and their Warrior King, Sonni Ali, descended from the fishing tribes of the Niger River. He captured Timbuktu and the other cities along ...

The genocidal tactics of Sonni Ali Ber, the founder of the Songhay empire, are comparable in scale to those of Caesar in Gaul or France’s massacres of the Bwa in modern-day Burkina Faso during the ...

Because, at the end of the day, I'm a gamer, and I'm not going to pick the Songhai Empire because geographically it was ...

Nigerian-born scientist, Father Godfrey Nzamujo, started with a small, barren piece of land in Benin in 1985. His quest to a "zero waste" agricultural system was ignited by the drought and famine ...

The dramatic 17-m pyramidal structure of the Tomb of Askia was built by Askia Mohamed, the Emperor of Songhai, in 1495 in his capital Gao. It bears testimony to the power and riches of the empire that ...