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Songhai's Desert Salt War: The Taghaza Crisis
In this episode of The Songhai Empire: Africa's Powerful Forgotten Kingdom, Lucas and Luna dive into the brutal conflict over salt that nearly broke the empire decades before the Saadian invasion. The focus is on the Tuareg revolt at Taghaza in the early 16th century, when the desert salt mines—Songhai's economic lifeline—were seized by rebel Tuareg clans under the chief Akil ag Ammar. Lucas explains how Askia Muhammad, fresh from his legendary pilgrimage and facing rebellion in the north, assembled a punitive expedition of 10,000 men to march across the Sahara. The episode explores…
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