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Sonni Ali: The Warrior King Who Built Songhai
Before Askia Muhammad, before the great libraries and scholarly courts, there was Sonni Ali — the Sunni king who transformed a modest Niger River kingdom into a sprawling empire. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the controversial reign of Sonni Ali, a ruler often dismissed in written histories as a tyrant but remembered in oral tradition as a military genius. They explore his conquest of Timbuktu and Djenne, his construction of a fleet of war canoes, his patronage of the Sorko river people, and his reputation as a sorcerer. Why did the Tarikh al-Sudan portray him so negatively? What…
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