In most Western history books, the history of Africa before the bloody and gruesome age of colonialism is barely touched on, ...

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Ancient Ghana encompassed ... of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King of Ghana The wealth of Ghana is ...

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When the wind dies down and the sands are still, a long shadow casts a wedge of darkness across the Sahara, creeping ever longer as the north African ... "great house," but later came to mean king.

Ancient Ghana derived power ... and established closer trading ties with North Africa. There were numerous reasons for the decline of Ghana. The King lost his trading monopoly, at the same time ...