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The Mali Empire was also known for its thriving trade network, which stretched across the Sahara Desert and into North Africa and the Middle East. The modern countries included are Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, and parts of Niger and Burkina Faso. But Mali itself is the centre of the empire.
The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé [3] or Manden Duguba; [4] [5] Arabic: مالي, romanized: Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita (c. 1214 – c. 1255) and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa (Musa Keita).
[68] [69] Diarra remained Mali's last link to the Trans-Saharan trade network. [66] The rising Songhai under Sunni Suleiman Dama conquered conquered the ancient kingdom of Mema, one of Mali's oldest dependencies, in 1460. [70] Sunni Ali conquered Timbuktu from the Tuareg in 1469 and then, after a long siege, took Djenne in 1471.
Mansa Musa [a] (reigned c. 1312 – c. 1337 [b]) was the ninth [5] Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign.Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige, although he features less in Mandinka oral traditions than his predecessors.
For almost 1000 years, [15] the Dogon people, an ancient ethnic group of Mali [16] had faced religious and ethnic persecution—through jihads by dominant Muslim communities. [15] These jihadic expeditions formed themselves to force the Dogon to abandon their traditional religious beliefs for Islam.
Scholars wrote their own books as part of a socioeconomic model. Students were charged with copying these books and any other books they could get their hands on. Today there are over 700,000 manuscripts in Timbuktu with many dating back to West Africa's Golden Age (12th-16th centuries).
The military history of the Mali Empire is that of the armed forces of the Mali Empire, which dominated Western Africa from the mid 13th to the late 15th century. The military culture of the empire's driving force, Mandinka people, influenced many later states in West Africa including break-away powers such as the Songhay and Jolof empires.
The Tellem (meaning: "those who were before us" or "We found them" in the Dogon language [1] [2]) were the people who inhabited the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali between the 11th and 16th centuries CE. [3] [4] The Dogon people migrated to the escarpment region around the 14th century. In the rock cells of this red cliff, clay constructions ...