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Askia Dawud: The Golden Age of Songhai's Longest Reign
When Askia Dawud took the throne of the Songhai Empire in 1549, he inherited a realm that his father Askia Muhammad had built and his brothers had nearly torn apart. For over three decades, Dawud ruled with a steady hand, expanding agriculture, patronizing the scholars of Timbuktu and Jenne, and maintaining peace along the Niger River. Under his reign, the empire reached its greatest territorial extent, and the intellectual golden age of Timbuktu flourished—even as whispers of internal decay grew louder. This episode explores Dawud's long rule: his irrigation projects that turned the…
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