Latest / The Songhai Empire: Africa's Powerful Forgotten Kingdom — Fexingo History
Sonni Ali's War Canoes: The Sorko River Warriors of Songhai
Long before Askia Muhammad's cavalry dominated the Sahel, the Songhai Empire was built on water. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Sorko — a riverine people whose war canoes and intimate knowledge of the Niger River's channels, floods, and islands made them the backbone of Sonni Ali's military campaigns. How did these 'water spirits' outmaneuver the Mali Empire's cavalry? What was the secret of their hippopotamus-hide shields? And why did the Sorko fade from history after the Moroccan invasion? Drawing on the Tarikh al-Sudan and oral traditions from the…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.