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Askia Dawud: The Sultan Who Built Songhai's Golden Age
When Askia Muhammad died in 1538, his son Dawud inherited an empire at its peak. But Dawud wasn't just a caretaker—he was arguably Songhai's greatest administrator. Over 39 years, Dawud expanded the imperial bureaucracy, stabilized the currency, patronized Timbuktu's scholars, and kept the peace with a standing army of 30,000. Yet his reign is often overshadowed by his father's conquests. This episode spotlights Askia Dawud's governance: his reforms to the farari military class, his standardization of weights and measures, his construction of the Sankore mosque…
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