10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to ... for guaranteeing prosperity in the kingdom. Every year a virgin was offered ...

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he united several of West Africa’s kingdoms to defeat Ghana’s king, Sumanguru. He then began to conquer more land in the area, calling his new kingdom the Mali Empire. Records of oral history ...

These ancient kingdoms ... a dominant force in West Africa. Today, remnants of this empire can be seen in Borno and Adamawa states. Several other notable kingdoms and empires contributed to ...