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Songhai empire, great trading state of West Africa (flourished 15th–16th century), centred 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.
The Songhai Empire was a massive, multicultural West African state that spanned between the 15th and 16th centuries CE. With an area primarily covering western Sahel, Songhai kings rose to prominence as the Mali Empire dwindled in the 15th century.
3 Facts about the Songhai Empire are: It was the largest state in West Africa. King Sunni Ali was its first ruler. The Songhai grew rich after monopolising trans-Saharan trade. What caused the Songhai Empire to fall? The Songhai Empire fell around 1591 when it was weakened by civil wars and attacked by the growing Moroccan Empire.
Songhai-Zarma people have included the kings and warriors, the scribes, the artisans, the weavers, the hunters, the fishermen, the leather workers and hairdressers (Wanzam), and the domestic slaves (H.. more »
The Tellem are believed to have arrived at the rocky Bandiagara Escarpment in present-day southern Mali sometime during the eleventh century A.D. By the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, the Tellem population was devastated, possibly due to famine caused by drought or Songhai and Mossi slave raids.
The Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire. Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2000. It was from one of Mali’s former conquests, the kingdom of Gao, that the last major empire of the western Sudan emerged.
The Songhai Empire was a state located in the western part of the Sahel during the 15th and 16th centuries. At its peak, it was one of the largest African empires in history. The state is known by its historiographical name, derived from its largest ethnic group and ruling elite, the Songhai people.