Welcome to the First Major Black Empire: Ghana Empire!
My African Cliches (English)
English - August 21, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 9.33 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHistory Society & Culture blackhistory africanarchives africancultures africanheroes africanhistory blackgreatness greatafrica learnafricanculture sankofabird sankofatrips Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Welcome back in our series of trips to the ancient African states. Today, the flight of Sankofa lands in a territory limited to the North by the Sahara desert and to the south by the forest, between the upper Niger valley to Upper Senegal on the border with White Africa. The first major black empire to emerge in western Sudan, its hegemony lasted from the 4th to the 11th century AD.
Welcome to the Ghana empire, which was very different, and much larger than today's Ghana, which Kwame Nkrumah wanted to honor by choosing its name to baptize his country, the newly independent Gold coast